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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...

MySQL & MariaDB Database Backup Resources

November 10, 2017 Forrest Lymburner

HAProxy: All the Severalnines Resources

November 9, 2017 Forrest Lymburner

New ClusterControl Template for Zabbix

October 24, 2017 Ashraf Sharif