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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously. When Tom Tom launched the LBS platform they wanted the ability to reach millions of developers all around the world without having them invest a lot of capital upfront in hardware and building expensive data centers so turned to the cloud.

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Ready-to-Use High Availability Architectures for MySQL and PostgreSQL

Percona

So why not use a proven architecture instead of starting from scratch on your own? This blog provides links to such architectures — for MySQL and PostgreSQL software. You can use these Percona architectures to build highly available PostgreSQL or MySQL environments or have our experts do the heavy lifting for you.

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Backup and Recovery for Databases: What You Should Know

Percona

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

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Understanding What Kubernetes Is Used For: The Key to Cloud-Native Efficiency

Percona

Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands. It distributes the load among containers and nodes automatically, ensuring that your application can handle any spike in traffic without the need for manual intervention from an IT staff.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The expectation was that with each order or two of magnitude, we would need to revisit and revise the architecture to make sure we could address the issues of scale. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. Primitives not frameworks.

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