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Dipti Joshi

Staff Product Manager

Dipti Joshi is a Staff Product Manager at Cockroach Labs, where she drives the resilience and scalability roadmap for CockroachDB and its storage engine. A veteran of the database industry, she has successfully brought advanced database proxy and real-time analytics solutions to market — most notably guiding MariaDB’s MaxScale from initial concept to industry adoption and leading streaming analytics product strategy at Kinetica. Before moving into product management, Dipti spent a decade as a software engineer and architect.

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Database Modernization

Scale & Resilience

Engineering

Ideal isn’t real: Stress testing CockroachDB’s resilience

In today’s always-on, global applications, raw speed is no longer enough. Modern enterprises demand not only blistering transaction rates but also unwavering stability when the unexpected strikes; whether that’s a network hiccup, a failing disk, or an entire data center going dark. With organizations averaging 86 outages a year, failures are the norm today. But traditional benchmarks like TPC-C only tell you how fast a database runs in perfect conditions, or sunny days. They leave out the more important story of what happens when things go wrong.

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June 11, 2025

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