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Toil: Still Plaguing Engineering Teams by Damon Edwards

PagerDuty

Interest in the topic of SRE has skyrocketed since Google published their Site Reliability Engineering book. semi-manual deployments, schema updates/rollbacks, changing storage quotas, network changes, user adds, adding capacity, DNS changes, service failover). No time to learn new skills. Excessive operational support costs.

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Relational vs. Non-relational Databases

Pure Storage

This data can be easily filtered, searched, manipulated, and cross-referenced with other relational databases on flight booking websites, airport arrival monitors, customer service centers, and by the FAA. Here’s where eventual consistency helps, propagating changes made to a database across nodes over time. Built-in replication.