Shailendra Patel
Member of Technical StaffShailendra Patel is part of the Database Resilience and Performance team at Cockroach Labs, where his team pushes CockroachDB to its limits through Resilience Benchmarking at Scale. He designs and manages highly available infrastructure deployments across GCP, AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes.
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.
Shailendra Patel
June 11, 2025