11.5. High availability for the StoreCompany OaK example

The purpose of this example is to stress that application design is a crucial part of choosing what types of availability issues need addressing when creating a design for high availability.

The One-of-A-Kind (OaK) StoreCompany project was conceived to validate a marketing idea. It costs StoreCompany little to enter special art items into its standard catalog structure and have the items drop-shipped by the artist. The proposal made by marketing was that by using business intelligence (BI) schemes they could identify, in real time, those customers likely to buy expensive OaK items. They could also identify those types of items that would be of interest by comparing the customers' buying ...

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