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Fintech is one of the most competitive and highly regulated industries in the world. Whether you’re a payment processor, digital-first bank, trading platform, or wallet provider, your infrastructure is directly tied to customer trust. In this environment, outages aren’t just technical incidents; a single missed transaction, delayed authorization, or moment of downtime can erode customer confidence instantly.

Becca Weng

February 25, 2026

In betting and gaming, growth is rarely gradual. Traffic spikes around major sporting events. Millions of real-time transactions hit your platform at once, and every one of them has to be correct. When the database falters, the consequences aren’t abstract. Revenue stops. Players lose trust. Regulators start asking questions.

Becca Weng

February 24, 2026

If you own payments infrastructure, platform stability, or risk controls at a payments company, this article’s title is not a rhetorical question.

Jim Harris

February 20, 2026

Every year at RoachFest, we hear directly from the teams running some of the most demanding data workloads in production. RoachFest 2025 was no different—except this year, a clear theme emerged across customer sessions: primary data and metadata are often mission-critical.

Becca Weng

February 18, 2026

83% of technology leaders believe their infrastructure will fail under AI pressure within two years. That number is not meant to provoke alarm. It’s simply a fact that reflects the forward-looking judgment of 1,125 global engineering and technology leaders who are already seeing stress where their systems were never designed to carry it.

Becca Weng

February 17, 2026

AI agents are no longer a thought experiment. They’re already writing code, calling APIs, retrying failed requests, and coordinating work at machine speed. And they’re about to put unprecedented pressure on the systems we use to store and move data.

Becca Weng

February 13, 2026

As AI-driven and agentic applications push data platforms into new territory, data architects are increasingly forced to choose between correctness, simplicity, and scale. Today, we’re removing that tradeoff — announcing support for 300-node clusters with 2.2M tpmC and 1.2PB of data in CockroachDB v25.4.4 and beyond. On CockroachDB Cloud, we’re announcing support for 64 vCPU per node. Testing to this scale is important to ensure that we’re testing ahead of customer deployments, and this milestone does just that. We believe these tests represent the largest node-scale testing completed by any distributed SQL vendor. And we’re just getting started.

David Bressler

February 12, 2026

In Part 1 of this article series on Global Reporting Platforms, we explored why traditional reporting architectures are increasingly unable to keep up with modern business demands.

Alex Seriy

February 11, 2026

Database modernization is a priority for many enterprises in 2026, as pressure builds for applications to grow more distributed, failure-tolerant, and globally accessible. Increasing cloud deployments may seem like a quick cure...

David Weiss

February 9, 2026