Author Archives: roger

CockroachDB vs Postgres-BDR

We have been happily using Postgres-BDR for years as a multi-master database for fault-tolerant applications – it’s been incredibly robust for us. The advantage of a multi-master database is that… Read more »

Moving Docker container data

If you have created a container without specifying a volume, Docker will create one for you. If you later decide you’d rather have the container’s data somewhere else, you can… Read more »

Repairing a broken Postgres-BDR cluster

Postgres-BDR is an excellent multi-master replication clustering extension for PostgreSQL (https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/postgres-bdr-2ndquadrant/). We often use it for fault tolerant systems – its asynchronous and uncomplicated to set up (at least if… Read more »