Failover Environments: Ensuring Availability of Business-Critical Software 🟢

Date: 4th October

Time: 12:30pm - 1:15pm 

Location: Online

Delivering business-critical systems that require 24/7, uninterrupted access? 

In today’s fast-paced business environment, ensuring the availability of critical software is essential. 

Join us as we explore the importance of high availability and failover environments, focusing on multi-region setups for business continuity and disaster recovery. 

This session is tailored for businesses that rely on uninterrupted access to their systems, covering everything from understanding key objectives to implementing cost-effective failover solutions.

What we'll cover:

Introduction

• Aligning business objectives with high availability and disaster recovery strategies
• Understanding the goals of failover systems, taking into account cost constraints and existing solutions
• Key metrics: RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) – what they mean for your business and how they relate to Azure and AWS availability
• Evaluating current solutions and designing an effective failover environment based on cost and resource availability
• Demo: Designing a failover environment based on the above captured criteria 

Planning and design for failover

• How to assess infrastructure SLAs and design systems that support automatic failover and manual intervention during long-term outages
• Key components such as storage accounts, SQL failover groups, and Azure Front Door
• Cost management and optimisation strategies

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Introduction to Terraform and how it can be used to create a multi-region high availability system
• Demo: A high level demo using Terraform, showcasing how to test a failover scenario

This event will offer practical insights into how to design, plan, and implement robust failover environments that meet business continuity needs while keeping costs in check.

Speaker: 

Rhys Smith

Senior Software Engineer 

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