CockroachDB × Cisco AI (formerly Armorblox)
CockroachDB x Cisco AI, from 5am database firefighting to hands-off global scale
65K transactions per second across 7 regions
Waking at 5am to keep databases alive to confident hands-off scaling
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Why it works
The before-state is concrete and human: engineers waking at 5am to keep databases alive for East Coast clients. That detail makes the operational burden visceral and believable. The story sits at the boundary of Efficiency and New Capability because CockroachDB also enabled net-new AI products built from scratch, but the framing leads with removing toil, so Efficiency wins the tie-break. The architecture section adds credibility by naming specific integrations like CDC to Snowflake and Databricks.
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Use a specific, time-stamped human behavior (engineers waking at 5am) to stand in for abstract operational pain. It is more memorable than any percentage reduction in maintenance hours.
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