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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

HA in PostgreSQL databases delivers virtually continuous availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. 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. there cannot be high availability.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

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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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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. It’s a rather new plugin build for virtual synchronous replication. wsrep patches / Galera Library This solution is virtually synchronous, which is comparable to Group Replication. and it has many advantages.

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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. they are never really idle.

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

Percona

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

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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.