High Availability at Braintree by Paul Gross

Posted by idefine on Thursday October 17, 2013 @10:25AM
from the speakerdeck.com dept.

https://speakerdeck.com/pgr0ss/high-availability-at-braintree

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Re:High Availability at Braintree by Paul Gross by idefine on Thursday October 17, 2013 @10:34AM (#6565583)

Notes on how Braintree handles planned maintenance, unplanned failure, and people mistakes to support processing transactions at the rate of $22k/min or $12 billion yearly.

- PostgreSQL was a win for them over MySQL

- Custom built load balancers

- Automation to reduce human errors

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