Tag: High Availability

The 5 Biggest Challenges With APIs

March 22, 2024

Over the last couple of years, we’ve heard a lot of breathless talk about application programming interfaces (APIs) and how they’re going to change everything. APIs exist to solve a fundamental problem: how can a group of people use stuff written by a different group of people, who may have had different ideas and expectations? [...]

March 22, 2024
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How Caches Become Databases – And Why You Don’t Want This

March 21, 2024

By: Mark Simborg

Companies like to complicate things. There’s no better way to say it. The law of entropy clearly applies as much to tech stacks and data management as it does to closets and desk drawers. In the world of databases, data management, and data platforms, this entropy usually takes the form of a simple database or [...]

March 21, 2024
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The 6 Rules for Achieving (and Maintaining) High Availability

March 13, 2024

By: Mark Simborg

In the age of big-data-turned-massive-data, maintaining high availability, aka ultra-reliability, aka ‘uptime’, has become “paramount”, to use a ChatGPT word. Why? Because until recently, most computer interaction was human-to-computer, and humans are (relatively) flexible when systems misbehave: they can try a few more times and then go off and do something else before trying again [...]

March 13, 2024
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What is High Availability and Why Do You Need it?

April 13, 2022

By: Briana Matejcik

High availability describes systems or networks that can operate continuously, with minimal downtime, even during peak usage. The advent of 5G has made high availability more important than ever as it has significantly increased the volume, variety, and velocity of data flowing into systems. What’s the Purpose of High Availability? The goal of high availability [...]