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Ritesh Modi
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Ritesh Modi is a technologist with more than 18 years of experience. He holds a master's degree in science in AI/ML from LJMU. He has been recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director for his contributions to building tech communities, products, and services. He has published more than 10 tech books in the past and is a cloud architect, speaker, and leader who is popular for his contributions to data centers, Azure, Kubernetes, blockchain, cognitive services, DevOps, AI, and automation.
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High availability

High availability is one of the major architectural concerns for any architect. It forms one of the core non-functional technical requirements for any serious service and its deployment. High availability refers to the feature of a service or application that keeps it operational on a continuous basis, meeting or surpassing its promised defined service level agreement (SLA). Users are promised a certain SLA based on service type. The service should be available for consumption based on its SLA. For example, an SLA can have 99% availability for an application for the entire year. This means it should be available for consumption by users for 361.35 days. If it becomes less than this, this constitutes a breach of the SLA. Most mission-critical applications define their high-availability SLA with five nines for a year. This means the application should be up, running...

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Published in: Jan 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789614503

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Ritesh Modi

Ritesh Modi is a technologist with more than 18 years of experience. He holds a master's degree in science in AI/ML from LJMU. He has been recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director for his contributions to building tech communities, products, and services. He has published more than 10 tech books in the past and is a cloud architect, speaker, and leader who is popular for his contributions to data centers, Azure, Kubernetes, blockchain, cognitive services, DevOps, AI, and automation.
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