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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. there cannot be high availability.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

In 1991 I wrote a white paper on performance that was widely read, and in 1993 (with help from Brian Wong) that got me a job in the USA, working alongside Brian for Mike Briggs in technical product marketing. At one point we had two conflicting high availability products from different teams, who weren’t cooperating.

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An Introduction to MySQL Replication: Exploring Different Types of MySQL Replication Solutions

Percona

MySQL replication provides high availability, load balancing, and data redundancy, enhancing system reliability. Replication also provides for data availability by enabling failover to a replica in case the primary server becomes unavailable. It’s a rather new plugin build for virtual synchronous replication.

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DevOps Enterprise Summit, Europe 2021: Leadership and OKRs

Tasktop

The European leg of the DevOps Enterprise (Virtual) Summit 2021 returned last week (17-20 May) as the community reflected on a year like none other. There was plenty of positivity in the (virtual) air as speakers and attendees shared stories of heart, ingenuity, courage and resilience.

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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

However if you have a containerized workload that you are measuring with Kepler , or a cloud instance based workload that is running in virtual machines, you measure your carbon footprint based on how many and how big the containers and instances are, and how busy their CPUs are. they are never really idle.

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. There is an issue with this, which causes the OS to swap even with memory available. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings. 25.84 - Total 21.04

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The Paradox of Leadership

Edge Perspectives

Here, I am going to focus on institutional leaders, but I have also explored the implications for systems leaders as part of my work leading a World Economic Forum Council (our white paper is available as a pdf here ). In fact, one might even argue that we need these leaders more than ever.