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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 Perform Rolling Upgrades for MySQL

October 13, 2020 Sebastian Insausti

Tips for Upgrading ClusterControl

October 7, 2020 Agus Syafaat

A Development & Operations Checklist for MongoDB

October 2, 2020 Onyancha Brian Henry

Data Backups for SOC 2 Compliance

September 24, 2020 Andrew Abwoga