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Gameday simulations exist to find problems before production does. Our exercises found that failover wasn't just risky—it was impossible. Here's how we rearchitected PostgreSQL on Kubernetes with synchronous replication and Patroni to fix that: t.co

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Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: corporate
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