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Published inMar 2024

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Neelanjali Srivastav

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Design principles for architectural reliability

Reliability and high availability (HA) are foundational pillars for ensuring that applications and infrastructure can meet user demands without interruption. Reliability focuses on the system’s ability to operate correctly under specific conditions and for a particular period.

It involves designing systems to contain and manage failures in the smallest scope possible, minimizing the impact on overall operations. This approach requires a comprehensive understanding of potential failure modes and implementing targeted mitigation strategies to either prevent these failures or recover gracefully from them.

HA, discussed in detail in Chapter 2, is closely related to reliability but with an emphasis on ensuring that services remain accessible at all times. HA strategies involve creating redundant systems and components to eliminate single points of failure, thereby allowing for seamless failover in case of an outage. The goal...

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Saurabh Shrivastava

Saurabh Shrivastava is a technology leader, author, inventor, and public speaker with over 18 years of experience in the IT industry. He currently works at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Global Solutions Architect Leader and enables global consulting partners and enterprise customers on their journey to the cloud. Saurabh led the AWS global technical partnerships, set his team's vision and execution model, and nurtured multiple new strategic initiatives. Saurabh has authored various blogs and whitepapers across a diverse range of technologies, such as big data, IoT, machine learning, and cloud computing. He is passionate about the latest innovations and their impact on our society and daily life. He holds a patent in the area of cloud platform automation. Before AWS, Saurabh worked as an enterprise solution architect, software architect, and software engineering manager in Fortune 50 enterprises, start-ups, and global product and consulting organizations.
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Neelanjali Srivastav

Neelanjali Srivastav is a technology leader, product manager, agile coach, and cloud practitioner with over 16 years of experience in the software industry. She currently works at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Senior Product Manager and enables global customers on their data journey to the cloud. Neelanjali evangelizes and enables AWS customer and partners in AWS database, analytics, and machine learning services. She sets the product vision and cultivates new products in incubation. Before AWS, Neelanjali led teams of software engineers, solutions architects, and systems analysts to modernize IT systems and develop innovative software solutions for large enterprises. Neelanjali has held multiple roles in the IT services industry and R&D, focusing on enterprise application management, cloud service management, and orchestration.
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