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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...

How to Secure MySQL: Part One

November 20, 2020 Lukas Vileikis

An Overview of Percona Backup for MongoDB

November 19, 2020 Agus Syafaat

How to Deploy Percona XtraDB Cluster

November 11, 2020 Krzysztof Ksiazek

Getting Started with the MongoDB Go Driver

November 4, 2020 Akash Kathiriya