A Conversation with Peter Mattis: Inherent Resilience for Tomorrow’s Outage

In a recent webinar by Cockroach Labs, Peter Mattis and Rob Reid discussed the importance of building resilient IT systems in today's data-driven world. They highlighted that downtime can have severe consequences for businesses, both financially and reputationally, with costs associated with downtime being significant. The webinar emphasized the need to move beyond traditional disaster recovery approaches towards inherent resilience, which involves building systems designed to survive the failure of any component without human intervention. This approach ensures zero recovery point objective (RPO) and minimal recovery time objective (RTO), providing continuous availability and operational continuity. The discussion also touched upon how modern distributed SQL databases like CockroachDB can help businesses maintain critical operations even in the face of disruptions, ensuring inherent resilience.