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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 Load Balancing with ProxySQL

February 14, 2017 Jean-Jérôme Schmidt

MongoDB features in ClusterControl 1.4

January 24, 2017 Art van Scheppingen

Evolution of ClusterControl for MySQL & MongoDB

January 24, 2017 Jean-Jérôme Schmidt