Disaster Recovery

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Technologies Weekly Musings

Spoiler – Owning your data isn’t good enough

Ronald Bradford
September 4, 2022

While this is a catchy title, if you use Software as a Service (SaaS), or an online cloud provider, do you actually own and have total control of your business data and its infrastructure?

Continuent Databases MySQL

Controlled failover simplicity with MySQL

Ronald Bradford
September 19, 2012

As part of a recent engagement, I described the relative products to manage a MySQL pair (i.e. an Active/Passive MySQL masters configuration). This included the steps to undertake a controlled failover for supporting software maintenance using manual procedures.