A Real-World Disaster Recovery Case
summary
A real-world Disaster Recovery project to build a cross-continent DR system between the US and Europe for a postal money-transfer platform, covering analysis through implementation. It focuses on operations and infrastructure, detailing use of Java on Tomcat (and sometimes Kubernetes), with SQL Server, MySQL and Cassandra databases running on AWS, and discusses encountered problems, impacts on applications, and future complexities of such a setup.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction to the case
- 3:11What is disaster recovery?
- 7:00Business and legal requirements
- 12:19Crisis team and processes
- 18:17Initial technical architecture
- 22:25Database solutions
- 28:29Cassandra replication
- 30:16Containers and Q Vertnet
- 31:59Testing and drills
- 35:10Lessons learned
- 38:41Importance of communication
- 39:29Q&A
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