CHAPTER 8

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High Availability, Scalability, and Disaster Recovery

In previous chapters, we touched upon the core tenets of cloud services and how to apply them to designing and building your hardened application. In this chapter, we will cover the most important aspects of hardened applications, which directly impact user experience and, ultimately, the commercial success of your cloud application. These three aspects are:

  • High availability
  • Scalability
  • Disaster recovery

High Availability

In this world of users who are always online via ever-connected devices, users expect your cloud application to be working all the time. Further demands are made ...

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