🔗 Surviving 11 application and database failures with CockroachDB

In today’s always-on digital world, even the most advanced systems are vulnerable to unexpected failures. Whether it’s an unhandled exception, a network outage, or a critical database failure, these disruptions don’t just slow you down—they can cost your business time, money, and customer trust. But what if your database didn’t just react to failure, but actively worked to prevent it?

CockroachDB is designed with resilience as a core principle. Its transactionally consistent, distributed architecture, automated failover, and self-healing capabilities ensure that your applications remain available and your data stays consistent—even in the face of the most unpredictable failures. From hardware malfunctions to gray failures, CockroachDB minimizes downtime, mitigates risk, and allows your systems to recover automatically.

In this 3-part series, “Surviving Failures with CockroachDB,” we’ll explore the most common failure scenarios affecting modern applications and databases — and, more importantly, how CockroachDB helps prevent, contain, and recover from them. In this first post, we’ll cover:

• Common Application Failures: Handling crashes, resource exhaustion, and configuration issues with resilience.

• Common Database Failures: Preventing data corruption, replication issues, and deadlocks.

By the end of this series, you’ll see how CockroachDB empowers businesses to build modern systems that don’t just perform well—they thrive in the face of adversity. Let’s dive in.