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We Ditched MongoDB 8.0 for CockroachDB 24.1 and Achieved 99.999% Uptime in 2026

DEV Community·ANKUSH CHOUDHARY JOHAL·6 months ago
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In Q1 2026, our 14-person engineering team at FleetOps (a logistics SaaS for 12k enterprise customers) cut unplanned downtime by 98.7%, reduced p99 write latency by 4.2x, and saved $210,000 in annual infrastructure costs by migrating from MongoDB 8.0 to CockroachDB 24.1. We hit 99.999% uptime over 180 days of production traffic, a milestone MongoDB never delivered for us in 3 years of use.

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