Chapter 5. WAN Slave Architectures

In the previous chapter, we learned how to play with slave replications. You now know how it works and want to know how we could grow and geographically extend them to several regions.

You will encounter several issues in the following areas:

  • The architecture of replications
  • The security
  • The bandwidth

We'll cover all these topics to help you understand the pros and cons of setting a lot of replications. We will see different use cases and associated solutions.

Cascade slaves

In the previous chapter, we've seen how to build several slaves from a master node. When you have a few nodes, it's not really a problem for the master node to handle them.

However, when you multiply the number of slave nodes, you'll encounter more ...

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