Database Failover as a Service

Abstract:

Workshop / Panel

Thanks to modern devops tools, most applications today can be deployed with some degree of "self-healing". But Relational databases (in this case, Postgres) still generally involve a descent into shell-scripting land and manual failovers. How can we make database failover automatic but trustworthy?

Speaker:

Josh Berkus is on the PostgreSQL Core Team and is also the main author of the HandyRep failover tool. Handyrep is a good start, but we still have further to go.