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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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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. All companies, regardless of size, should consider how to strike a balance between availability goals and cost.

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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. Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. First, what follows is not a critique of individuals on the Safari team or the WebKit project; it is a plea for Apple to fund their work adequately [2]. Mind The Gap.

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