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  • Database Terminology Explained: Postgres High Availability and Disaster Recovery

    Elizabeth Christensen

    In my day to day, I'm surrounded by great database engineers. They talk about things like HA and raft protocol and the right and wrong approach for configuring synchronous vs. asynchronous replication. There is a lot of value in all that deep technical knowledge, but for when interacting with customers, I like to boil it down a bit. What I've seen is that for many folks the basics of key database principles can get lost in the details. What follows is a summary of conversations I've had with customers on how to think about key tenants of database management: high availability and disaster recovery.

    What Does It Mean To Be Highly Available?

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