Eliminating All the SPOFs! An Exercise in Redundancy

It’s crucial to have redundancy in your architecture to ensure smooth operations. Eliminating Single Points of Failure (SPOFs) is a common way to achieve this. Implementing High-Availability (HA) technology is one way to eliminate SPOFs. HA technology is crucial because it helps businesses maintain operational continuity, enhance performance, improve reliability, facilitate Disaster Recovery (DR), build customer trust, and comply with regulations. With HA technology, minimizing downtime and ensuring continuous service availability is possible, contributing to overall success and competitiveness in today’s technology-driven world.

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What about DR? We are not covering the failure of data centers in this chapter. That being said, the approach to implementing DR is very different than HA. When running in the cloud, look for services such as Oracle Full Stack Disaster Recovery Service that automate the DR process...