Re: Redundant Data Center Architectures

[Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On Oct 29, 2009, at 12:44 AM, Brandon Galbraith wrote:

> Somewhere on video.google.com is a Google I/O talk explaining the  
> hell that
> is active/active redundancy and how hard it is to achieve at layers  
> 4-7.

Depends upon the type of apps, amount of required concurrency, etc.

It's easy on the front-end (which is where most of the drama tends to  
take place, anyways); it's the middle and back-end tiers which require  
some work, but it certainly can be and is accomplished daily, for both  
simple and more complex systems.

The smart money makes use of various existing *aaS platforms to  
accomplish this without having to re-invent the wheel every time.

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