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

Percona

At its core, Kubernetes (often abbreviated as K8s) is an open source tool that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes manages and orchestrates these containers, handling tasks such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, and networking.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

For example, if you’re a small business, paying for a disaster recovery site outside your local data center is probably unnecessary and may cause you to spend more money than the data loss is worth. Without enough infrastructure (physical or virtualized servers, networking, etc.), there cannot be high availability.

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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. Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges.

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Google Lighthouse vs Rigor

Rigor

This is where, even when your business has grown out of its use as your only performance tool, Lighthouse can continue to add value alongside other solutions. The client base for most businesses is not all using the same device on the same network to access a website or web application.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. Delayed five years.

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