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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…
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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…
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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…