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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. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

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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. Can you afford the necessary hardware, software, and operational costs of maintaining a PostgreSQL HA solution?

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

We also have a great deal of machine learning technology that can benefit machine scientists and developers working outside Amazon. They also started asking us to give them access to the technology that powers Alexa, so that they can add a conversational interface (using voice or text) to their mobile apps. Amazon Lex.

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The Agile Manager

A small merchant wanting to do more business digitally didn't have the balance sheet to finance development of digital capabilities, let alone drive consumer behavior change to use those capabilities. On the one hand, many regulations have been lightened to make it easier for companies to conduct business during the crisis.