Most teams building production applications understand that “uptime” matters. I am writing this blog to demonstrate how much difference an extra 0.09% makes.
At 99.9% availability, your system can be down for over 43 minutes every month. At 99.99%, that window drops to just over 4 minutes. If your product is critical to business operations, customer workflows, or revenue generation, those 39 extra minutes of downtime each month can be the difference between trust and churn.
Click through for some of the tools and practices that can help get you there in PostgreSQL.