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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...

The New Way to Manage Open Source Databases

December 18, 2018 Vinay Joosery

2019 Open Source Database Trends & Predictions

December 14, 2018 Forrest Lymburner

Deploying MongoDB Using Docker

December 13, 2018 Akash Kathiriya

Database Backup Encryption – Best Practices

November 30, 2018 Krzysztof Ksiazek

What's New in PostgreSQL 11

November 28, 2018 Viorel Tabara