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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...

Running ProxySQL as Kubernetes Service

October 30, 2018 Ashraf Sharif

How to Cluster Your ProxySQL Load Balancers

October 26, 2018 Krzysztof Ksiazek

Choosing a Database Proxy for MySQL & MariaDB

October 25, 2018 Forrest Lymburner

A Developer’s Guide to MongoDB Sharding

October 15, 2018 Onyancha Brian Henry