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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...

Elasticsearch performance optimization

January 22, 2025 Paul Namuag

The Sovereign Cloud brief

August 22, 2024 Marisa Crous