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Helping the Database Team with Automation

Stateful applications, by definition, must save data persistently. So, when we talk about stateful applications, data will come into the picture, and hence, database servers. Choose any supported database software, depending on the type of data you want to store. This includes the number of transactions, the performance that’s required for your application, high availability and failover support, and many other factors. However, there are more important concerns, such as preparing the datastore, installing the necessary dependencies, packages or libraries. In terms of maintenance, this will be a continuous process as we need to take care of backups, data dumps, snapshots, and restoration in case of ...

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