What is RTO and RPO in Disaster Recovery, and How to Build Fault-Tolerant Apps

RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) are crucial in disaster recovery planning for businesses. RPO indicates how much data can be lost during a failure, while RTO defines the time it takes to recover from a failure. Businesses aiming for zero RPO and RTO need to minimize both data loss and downtime. CockroachDB is a database solution that delivers zero RPO by wrapping the complexity of building a highly resilient infrastructure into a single product, reducing component complexity by 75%. It provides ACID guarantees through consensus-based replication for consistent data and can be deployed on commodity hardware. By achieving fault tolerance at the software layer, CockroachDB enables IT leaders to reduce risk while simplifying their data architectures, ultimately allowing them to focus on building reliable and innovative products quickly.