Latest posts from Elizabeth Christensen

Database Terminology Explained: Postgres High Availability and Disaster Recovery

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 cus...