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

Percona

It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. Applications can be horizontally scaled with Kubernetes by adding or deleting containers based on resource allocation and incoming traffic demands. All sizes of businesses can benefit from Kubernetes.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

As such, fault tolerance is more expensive to implement because it requires dedicated infrastructure that completely mirrors the primary system. Load balancing : Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded. Some disruption might occur, but it will be minimal.

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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

No single point of failure (SPOF): If the failure of a database infrastructure component could cause downtime, that component is considered an SPOF. Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run.

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The authors traffic in interesting data, but either lack the courage to draw any conclusion beyond Things Might Change But Nobody Knows (thanks for that, so helpful), or use the data selectively to present defenses for their preference of what the future will be. Oracle provides the cloud infrastructure that Zoom operates on.