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Automated Database Failover: Why Homegrown High Availability Struggles At Scale

October 2, 2026 Paul Namuag
I've encountered DBAs and ops engineers who shared war stories of running production long before automation and modern tooling went mainstream. Experiencing sudden primary faults during sleeping hours, getting paged, logging in to squint over trace logs that show replication lag on all replicas and working out which one is...

Introduction to MariaDB Vector Search

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How ClusterControl Saved Christmas – Part 6

December 18, 2025 Cassel Moschetto

How ClusterControl Saved Christmas – Part 5

December 16, 2025 Cassel Moschetto

How ClusterControl Saved Christmas – Part 4

December 12, 2025 Cassel Moschetto

How ClusterControl Saved Christmas – Part 3

December 9, 2025 Cassel Moschetto

How ClusterControl Saved Christmas – Part 2

December 5, 2025 Cassel Moschetto

How ClusterControl Saved Christmas – Part 1

December 2, 2025 Cassel Moschetto