<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>DBExplore blog — #high-availability</title><description>DBExplore engineering posts tagged high-availability.</description><link>https://www.dbexplore.com/</link><language>en</language><item><title>Aurora&apos;s writer endpoint can lie to you</title><link>https://www.dbexplore.com/blog/aurora-writer-endpoint-can-lie-to-you/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.dbexplore.com/blog/aurora-writer-endpoint-can-lie-to-you/</guid><description>CloudWatch measures instances. Your application talks to endpoints. For the minute those disagree, every instance metric looks healthy while writes fail.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Karthik M</dc:creator><category>aurora</category><category>high-availability</category><category>monitoring</category></item></channel></rss>