Articles by Tag #availability
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Calculating Allowed Downtime for Human Consumption - a follow-up
Correcting my calculations on allowed downtime and learning from the experience
Availability – Theory, Problems, Tools and Best Practices
Availability is the measure of a system’s ability to stay up and running despite the failures, of its...
The Pitfall of Increasing Read Capacity by Reading From Secondary Nodes in a MongoDB Replica Set
This article was reviewed and approved by MongoDB and was originally published in foojay.io and...
Availability — Geodes
"How Azure's multi-region pattern turns fragile systems into resilient ecosystems." The Problem:...
Availability — Throttling (1)
"the "PLEASE CHILL” Pattern your services desperately need" Imagine your service is a tiny...
Availability - Heartbeats (2)
We introduced heartbeats as periodic "I'm alive" messages in distributed systems, unpacked how they...
Availability — Heartbeats (1)
Picture this: you’re on-call, it’s 3 a.m., and a cluster node silently dies. No crash loop. No...
Building a Sustainable On-Call Culture: Escaping Alert Fatigue Before It Breaks You
Most on-call engineers don't burn out from hours, they burn out from noise. Alert fatigue isn't just...
FUNDERMENTAL CONCEPTS OF CLOUD COMPUTING
what is cloud computing? Cloud computing refers to the on-demand delivery of computing services such...
Easy Steps To Creating A Windows 10 Virtual Machine In Azure
What is a virtual machine? A virtual machine is an invisible version of a physical computer. A...
MongoDB compared to Oracle Database Maximum Availability Architecture
Users looking at Oracle alternatives see the limitations of PostgreSQL in terms of high availability...
Calculating Allowed Downtime for Human Consumption - 99% to 99.99999% Availability
Calculating human consumable allowed downtime from percentiles
Always Up, Never Chill: A Friendly Intro to Availability in Software
Imagine your favorite coffee shop. Every time you show up, the doors are locked and there’s a sticky...
Mastering Azure Availability Sets: Fault Domains, Update Domains, and Best Practices
When building infrastructure in Azure, high availability is non-negotiable. One of the fundamental...
Availability — Queue Based Load Leveling
“When spikes hit, don’t blast though — buffer, decouple, control” In distributed systems, you’ll...
Synthetic Monitoring: When "Normal Changes" Destroy Global Networks, Who Will Guard Your Business Availability?
This article introduces Synthetic Monitoring as an independent, user-centric mechanism for verifying...
Part2: Kubernetes Backup on Managed Services: What Changes When You Use EKS?
In my previous blog post, I covered Kubernetes backup strategies for self-managed clusters,...
Part1: Kubernetes Backup Strategies: Balancing Cost, Security, and Availability
Backing up a Kubernetes cluster is a critical task for any organization running containerized...
Domain Scanner: Find Available Domain Names in a Flash!
Quick Summary: 📝 Domain Scanner is a Go-based tool for checking domain name availability....
Core Attributes of Distributed Systems: Reliability, Availability, Scalability, and More
Whether you’re building a simple web app or a large distributed system, users don’t just expect it to...
Mastering MySQL Replication for High Availability and Scalability: A Comprehensive Guide
Mastering MySQL Replication for High Availability and Scalability: A Comprehensive Guide
Other Attacks. Glossary terms fro
New terms and their definitions: Adware: Software that displays advertisements and...