We just had a booboo in one of our internal systems, causing it to not come up properly on reboot. The actual mishap occurred several weeks ago (simple case of human error) and was in itself a valid change so monitoring didn’t raise any concerns. So, as always, it’s interesting and useful to think about [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized by arjen on Saturday, September 12, 2009 | Social tagging: mysql > Open Query > patch > reboot > security > sysadmin > uptime
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Last night my residential area lost power for about 2 hours, between 2-4 am. This reminded me of something, and there’s analogies to MySQL infrastructure. Power companies have over recent years invested a lot of money in making the supply more reliable. But, it does fail occasionally still. From my perspective, the question becomes: is [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized by arjen on Sunday, May 31, 2009 | Social tagging: continuity > failure > mysql > power > resilience > UPS > uptime
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