Tag: reliability
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The 5 Biggest Challenges With APIs
Read more: The 5 Biggest Challenges With APIsOver 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…
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How Caches Become Databases – And Why You Don’t Want This
Read more: How Caches Become Databases – And Why You Don’t Want ThisCompanies 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…
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The 6 Rules for Achieving (and Maintaining) High Availability
Read more: The 6 Rules for Achieving (and Maintaining) High AvailabilityIn 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…