Optimize your Release Management

As mentioned in chapter “Design for Scale”, the automation of data services is not restricted to the creation of data service instances such as provisioning database clusters on-demand. In order to work at platform scale, delivering a number of data services to a large number of platform environments across multiple infrastructures requires the automation of the entire data service lifecycle beyond the lifecycle of resulting service instances. (more…)

Be a Backup and Restore Hero!

The necessity to create backups needs no justification. Everybody knows that backups are mandatory.

An exception to this rule may be systems that are inherently designed for high-availability and use a high-number of data replicas. Especially, when dealing with vast volumes of data, this might be a valid strategy. (more…)