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Protecting Data in Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud
Backup, business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) have all been a critical part of IT for more than 30 years—ever since we began relying on technology to run our businesses. Traditional solutions were designed for the world of on-premises infrastructure and structured applications and relational databases. But the world is changing. In the last […]
Jan 16, 2017 · 3 minAll articles by Brian Yin
Showing 1–3Don’t Be Samsung: Here’s How You Can Protect Yourself
Imagine a factory building 100,000 units a day, and you can see how a small error can have huge consequences. Now imagine that factory is a database. The world’s top smartphone maker this month pulled the plug on its $882 Galaxy Note 7 after phones overheated and caught fire, concluding in a disastrous recall for […]
PyMongo Pointers: How to Make Robust and Highly Available Mongo Queries
In today’s clusters made of commodity servers, failures are the norm. Having your code fail because one data node happened to be down when you were querying it is frustrating and no fun. Based on my experience hardening our product, I wanted to share a few quick and easy pointers that can help make your […]