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Aquatic beasts of burden

Have been planning a Dark Sun style campaign, but recently we have done an adventure set in a desert so I want to add some variety.

The known world is a vast archipelago, tall volcanic islands are the only sanctuary from a vast brackish ocean. The land is dying, the sea is hypersaline - slack, windless, drained of love and life by the merciless Sorcerer Kings that plough the world of it's magic.

Small ships still ferry weary passengers between the attols, searching for the scarce amounts of drinkable water. The great warships are, of course, owned by the Oligarchs - powered by magical engines that can cross the flat water in a few hours.

The common folk such as you must charter tiny barges pulled by a pair of ...

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What are these cute guys?

  • Location: New South Wales
  • Time of year: Spring (very wet)
  • Description of growth medium: Soil and bark
  • Description of location: Feild
  • Surrounding flora: Grass
  • Recent weather: Very wet, heavy rain
  • Cap characteristics: Orange/Chestnut, older ones are slightly paler. Small vertical stripes, tiny yellow freckles
  • Textures: Smooth, a little rubbery
  • Spore print characteristics: Younger ones mostly cream, darkening to Brown/Purple on older ones
  • Characteristics of the stipe: Long, no ring, pale and thin, flexible
  • Characteristics of the gills: Unattached

Working on uploading more images, Lemmy is having issues 😅

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Zero downtime migration options with AWS RDS

Usual story - joined a startup and their production database is a single instance RDS running 11.3.

We can't upgrade or scale or even change configuration without taking the database offline. We want to move everything to an Aurora Postgres compatible cluster that can scale horizontally.

What options do we have? I've used Bucardo in the past to do one-way sync, but how is it at multi-master replication? What would you use for this task?

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