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"'Best effort' uptime is simply not an option" — that's how @PaloAltoNtwks' Principal…

"'Best effort' uptime is simply not an option" — that's how @PaloAltoNtwks' Principal SRE describes the bar for their…

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"'Best effort' uptime is simply not an option" — that's how @PaloAltoNtwks' Principal SRE describes the bar for their Prisma SASE Health Portal. To hit it, they retired their relational database for a MongoDB Atlas cluster spread across three regions, with customer subscriptions modeled as flexible JSON documents instead of rigid tables. ✔️ Zero-downtime failover across region ✔️ Microsecond alert matching, no JOINs ✔️ New services onboarded without schema migrations Learn how they built a zero-downtime, resilient status page: https://mongodb.social/6019BGdrVZ

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