07Make a Postgres database highly available. What are you actually promising, and what breaks?▼hard★ EssentialNewAmazonRazorpaySnowflake2 repliesunlockedEvery candidate says replication and failover. The scoring answer names the replication mode, states the resulting data loss window, and explains how the cluster avoids two primaries.Open full answer →
53You have backups for everything and have never restored one. Design the system that proves they work.▼mediumNewGoldman SachsIBMSAP◆ premiumAn untested backup is a belief, not a control. The design that matters is the one that restores automatically on a schedule and verifies the result, because that is the only thing that produces a recovery time you can quote.Open full answer →