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High Availability at Braintree by Paul Gross (speakerdeck.com)
2 points by idefine on Oct 17, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


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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