Hacker GitHub

← All repos

sorintlab/stolon

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 4,826 Go

PostgreSQL cloud native High Availability and more.

29 mentions on Hacker News by 22 people: 6 stories, 23 comments · first 2015-10-17 · latest 2026-09-27

Mentions per year 29 mentions · busiest year 2017 (10)
20082026
AllStoriesComments NewestTopOldest
  1. …For example, in Stolon, a high-availability Postgres orchestrator written in Go ( https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon ), I found the logic for failover with multiple channels and various timeouts very difficult to reason about when investig
    comment by nh2 · 2026-09-27 · in Go Concurrency Distilled
  2. …derefecence during kernel mount fsync on Linux 5.15" - https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/53819 [3]: https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon/issues/359#issuecomment-... [4]: https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon/issues/247
    comment by nh2 · 2026-04-18 · in Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
  3. …https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/tree/0.0.26/etcd (this one shows up on HN quite a bit) https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon#features It's actually one of the major reasons I wouldn't touch those projects
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-05-04 · in Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?
  4. …answered some of your questions. --- [1]: https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/ [2]: https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon [3]: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Streaming_Replication [4]: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/10/11/top…
    comment by Bayart · 2022-08-10 · in Falling for Kubernetes
  5. ▲ 1
    Stolon: PostgreSQL cloud native High Availability and more
    story by blopeur · 2022-03-28 · 0 comments
  6. I wonder how is this compared to Stolon https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon ?
    comment by ___luigi · 2021-10-05 · in PostgreSQL: Kubegres is available as open source
  7. …etc. https://github.com/zalando/patroni https://clusterlabs.github.io/PAF/ https://repmgr.org/ https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon
    comment by fanf2 · 2021-09-30 · in PostgreSQL 14
  8. > .. scaling Did you try Stolon?. https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon
    comment by ___luigi · 2021-09-06 · in Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't
  9. Not a DBA, but this seems comparable: > stolon - PostgreSQL cloud native High Availability https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon
    comment by nkcmr · 2020-12-06 · in Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess
  10. ▲ 5
    PostgreSQL cloud native High Availability
    story by fipar · 2020-07-24 · 0 comments
  11. …will implement this correctly: https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/replication_modes.h... https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon/blob/master/doc/syncrepl... Quoting a former colleague here, but "if it hurts, do it more often". That is…
    comment by feike · 2020-05-24 · in Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6
  12. …GB RAM. And speaking of Postgres HA management, master promotion, etc. there are several tools like https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon available.
    comment by wmf · 2018-10-25 · in MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable
  13. …in the days of PetSets. At the time of his tech diligence the best option appeared to be pg/stolon https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon . The gist of the interview is that there are many more edge cases with HA Postgres + leader election…
    comment by aberoham · 2018-01-22 · in Experiences with running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
  14. …esp around automatic fail-over / recovery. The pg/stolon FAQ hints at some of these issues: 1. https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon/blob/master/doc/faq.md#h...
    comment by aberoham · 2018-01-22 · in Experiences with running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
  15. I like Stolon: https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon
    comment by emXdem · 2017-12-06 · in PostgreSQL HA cluster failure: a post-mortem
  16. …two projects that have me excited right now: - Patroni https://github.com/zalando/patroni - Stolon https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon Stolon's client proxy approach in particular looks interesting, and reminds me of how people are using…
    comment by Sinjo · 2017-12-06 · in PostgreSQL HA cluster failure: a post-mortem
  17. How would this work together with something like Stolon? https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon
    comment by hof · 2017-08-11 · in Timescale, an open-source time-series SQL database for PostgreSQL
  18. ▲ 2
    Stolon – PostgreSQL Cloud Native High Availability
    story by xfiler · 2017-06-11 · 0 comments
  19. …or consul. So initially you had one service that must not go down , --now you have two! ;-) [1] https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon
    comment by cuu508 · 2017-04-05 · in It is done, the PostgreSQL community rocks
  20. …( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13738916 ) * Postgres automation for Kubernetes deployments https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon * Automation for operating the Etcd cluster: https://github.com/coreos/etcd-operator * Kubernetes-native…
    comment by twakefield · 2017-02-28 · in Ask HN: Is S3 down?
  21. This one: https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon It is not called the operator, but in many ways it is similar to what Etcd Operator does
    comment by alexk · 2017-02-26 · in Deploying PostgreSQL Clusters Using StatefulSets
  22. …orchestrators, here are some interesting projects: * Postgres automation for Kubernetes deployments https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon * Automation for operating the Etcd cluster: https://github.com/coreos/etcd-operator *…
    comment by alexk · 2017-02-26 · in Deploying PostgreSQL Clusters Using StatefulSets
  23. …and streaming replication options. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/warm-standby.html... https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon
    comment by TheDong · 2017-01-17 · in Ask HN: Why is the community so negative towards blockchain technology?
  24. ▲ 3
    Making PostgreSQL cloud native with High Availability and more
    story by jsiepkes · 2017-01-15 · 0 comments
  25. ▲ 2
    Stolon v0.5.0 released. Cloud native postgres high availability
    story by sgotti · 2016-12-15 · 1 comment
  26. Check this out: https://github.com/gravitational/stolon this is heavily modified version of https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon K8s-native deployment of PostgreSQL
    comment by alexk · 2016-09-10 · in Creating a PostgreSQL Cluster Using Helm
  27. similar: https://spilo.readthedocs.org/en/latest/DESIGN/ https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon I wonder how they compare to yoke.
    comment by secure · 2015-11-17 · in Postgres high-availability cluster with auto-failover and cluster recovery
  28. How does this compare to https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon ?
    comment by secure · 2015-10-24 · in Spilo, a Highly Available PostgreSQL Cluster
  29. ▲ 4
    Stolon – PostgreSQL cloud native HA replication manager
    story by secure · 2015-10-17 · 0 comments