Explains how Kubernetes prioritizes data integrity over uptime, detailing why stateful pods can get stuck 'Terminating' to prevent data corruption.
SQL Server 2025 CU1 allows creating/restoring databases in contained availability groups, but with notable limitations and a specific required process.
Author's session on SQL Server Contained Availability Groups selected for SQLBits 2026 conference, covering best practices and gotchas.
Explains Azure availability zone mapping risks and how to use the azqr tool to verify physical datacenter mappings for HA/DR.
A debate on whether SQL Server DBAs need to know Windows clustering and if high availability features are worth the operational complexity.
A comprehensive checklist for securing and ensuring high availability of SQL Server database applications, covering deployment, operations, and resilience.
A technical checklist for database application vendors to ensure SQL Server security, high availability, and best practices in deployment and operations.
Explains how to use Azure Traffic Manager as a failover solution for Azure Front Door during global service outages, ensuring application availability.
Explains how to achieve high availability for services over Tailscale using DNS-based load balancing, avoiding single points of failure.
Explains how to automate DNS failover for high availability in Azure and hybrid environments using PowerShell scripts and health monitoring.
Explains the benefits of SQL Server contained availability groups for simplifying failover and reducing DBA workload, contrasting them with traditional AGs.
A technical guide demonstrating how to perform a minimal-downtime major version upgrade of a PostgreSQL cluster using EDB Postgres Distributed.
Explores Azure's disaster recovery features for when an entire region is destroyed, covering availability zones, paired regions, and resilience strategies.
Part 2 of a guide on running Apache Flink on Kubernetes, covering fault tolerance, high availability, savepoints, and observability.
Part 2 of a guide on running Apache Flink on Kubernetes, covering fault tolerance, high availability, savepoints, and observability.
Explains how Postgres 17 introduces built-in failover replication slots, enabling seamless logical replication during primary database failovers.
Explains the limitations of physical and logical replication in Postgres and introduces EDB Postgres Distributed as a solution for production-grade needs.
Explains how to achieve 3-zone high availability deployments on GKE Autopilot using PodSpreadTopology constraints.
A technical guide on testing automatic failover for a zone-redundant Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server using Terraform.
A technical guide on testing failover for a zone-redundant Azure Cache for Redis instance using Terraform and redis-cli.
