Taking High Availability to the Extreme

In today’s business landscape, data is crucial.

Database downtime can be disastrous for regulated industries and global enterprises. To ensure uninterrupted operations, a flexible database architecture is essential. Organizations invest heavily in high availability for applications and databases, aiming for near-zero downtime. High availability in a database refers to maintaining levels of uptime that exceed normal service level agreements. High-availability databases archive such uptime by eliminating single points of failure, reliably failing over to redundant nodes, and monitoring for failures to initiate failover when needed.

Achieving this involves eliminating single points of failure, seamless transitions to redundant nodes, and constant monitoring. Always On, or extremely high availability, is now a necessity for successful digital transformation.

But when do you need to take high availability to the extreme and how is it achieved with Postgres?