Tag Archives: high availability

Have You Deployed an Availability Group?

Posted on April 3, 2020 by

The last few weeks have been interesting, to put it mildly, with both more and less engagement online. I see more people holding video calls, both inside and outside of work, but I also see less engagement at SQLServerCentral, blogs, … Continue reading →

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What’s the Cost of an Hour?

Posted on March 20, 2020 by

In 2017, we had a number of high profile downtime outages from companies. The British Airways fiasco, United airlines being grounded, Starbucks, Amazon, and more. There was a survey that noted 98% of respondents said an hour of downtime cost … Continue reading →

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MTTD

Posted on September 11, 2019 by

There are a lot of Mean-Time-To-xxxx acronyms. Many of us have heard of the mean time between failures (MTBF) for disk drives. Some of us use that information when considering which model to buy. In the DevOps world, there are … Continue reading →

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GitHub Downtime

Posted on December 3, 2018 by

I didn’t notice any issues with GitHub, but others did. The majority of my interaction is just through the git protocol, so things tend to work fast, and I don’t have any database access. I rarely use the Issues, and … Continue reading →

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