Posts Tagged ‘disaster recovery’

My talk on PostGIS replication at FOSS4G 2011 went well. It looked like there were about 150 people in the room. Most of them had not yet deployed a PostGIS replication solution.

My talk covered Slony and streaming replication. It gave an overview of different replication patterns that can crop on in the GIS space. I then gave an overview of the key features and limitation of Slony and streaming replication.

A video of the talk is available at FOSSLC

My slides are available here

Last Thursday Amazon EC2 suffered a major outage effecting many sites and services hosted on EC2. Friday was a holiday in North America (Good Friday) but the holiday weekend ends on Monday when many I.T. managers are going to to have some explaining to do.

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