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Every year, the holiday season puts extraordinary pressure on industries we rarely think of as seasonal powerhouses. While retailers dominate the headlines, there are many other companies that also quietly absorb the surge in traffic, transactions, and consumer expectation. Today we’ll focus on travel platforms, gambling and sportsbook operators, and fintech and payment providers. These sectors don’t just experience a bump; they face explosive, non-negotiable spikes that demand unwavering availability, real-time accuracy, and the ability to scale on command.

Becca Weng

December 23, 2025

In today's data-driven world, the continuity of database operations is not just a technical requirement; it's a cornerstone of business success. For applications built on CockroachDB, the inherent resilience provided by its distributed architecture and Raft replication offers a strong foundation for high availability. However, even with this robust fault tolerance, a comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) plan is essential to safeguard against unforeseen, large-scale incidents.

Sai Kiran Kshatriya

December 22, 2025

If 2024 was the year outage anxiety crept into boardrooms, 2025 was the year fragility became impossible to ignore.

David Weiss

December 17, 2025

As GenAI applications evolve from chat interfaces to autonomous agents, they are also introducing real infrastructure challenges. Model hallucinations, service outages, and scaling limitations are common blockers, especially for enterprise teams trying to move beyond proof of concept.

Becca Weng

December 16, 2025

This year the tech industry faced big changes: DORA regulations went into effect, the increasing adoption of AI and AI agents, and major outages. As our State of Resilience Report found earlier this year, organizations experience on average 86 outages each year. Within just one month, we saw critical services falter as AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare grappled with downtime. In 2025, the everyday consumer felt firsthand the impact of those outages: sites like X and ChatGPT malfunctioned, airlines suffered, and customer trust eroded.

Becca Weng

December 15, 2025

FinTech teams are operating under more pressure than ever. As digital financial services become the default for consumers and enterprises alike, the margin for error has all but disappeared. Users expect every interaction to be instantaneous, accurate, and always available, with very little patience for anything less.

David Weiss

December 12, 2025

The rate of ransomware attacks is increasing. Year over year, the number of publicly mentioned victims of these attacks have reached historic highs, including one report mentioning a 126% year-over-year increase. High-profile organizations across industries have fallen victim to such attacks, leading to substantial operational disruptions. Few, if any sectors are safe from ransomware attacks

Mike Geehan

December 11, 2025

When Isaac Wong talks about building systems, he puts people before servers or code. A mathematician turned engineering leader, Wong is constantly connecting abstract theory with real-world resilience. Today, as Executive Vice President of R&D at Cockroach Labs, he leads teams shaping one of the world’s most advanced distributed databases.

David Weiss

December 10, 2025

Every major cloud hyperscaler is having global impact outages. The 2024 Microsoft incident happened due to a bug in Crowdstrike. Google Cloud failed this summer because of a small configuration issue. AWS's most popular region US-East-1 was impacted in October 2025 due to a small change in one of their services. In each case, thousands of organizations worldwide saw their applications crash.

Ankur Raina

December 9, 2025