High Availability and Active-Active Infrastructure

High Availability and Active-Active Infrastructure

This course is part of Cloud Security, Resilience & Distributed Systems Specialization

Instructor: TSV Learning

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3 modules

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6 hours to complete

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3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

6 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Evaluate active-active architectures, redundancy models, and load balancing strategies for highly available infrastructure.
Analyze data replication, consistency trade-offs, distributed consensus, and synchronization strategies for multi-region applications.
Recommend failure-containment controls and plan resilience testing using distributed tracing, SLOs, and chaos engineering.

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There are 3 modules in this course

Design high availability and active-active infrastructure that helps distributed applications withstand failures while balancing resilience, consistency, and performance.

Built for cloud engineers, DevOps professionals, site reliability engineers, and architects, this course explores active-active and active-passive architectures, redundancy, recovery objectives, and multi-region traffic management. Compare Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing, global DNS, and Anycast routing to select suitable failover strategies. Learn to assess CAP and PACELC trade-offs, synchronous and asynchronous replication, distributed consensus, and conflict resolution. Evaluate multi-region databases, cache invalidation, and Kafka synchronization, including replication loops, consumer offsets, and idempotent processing. Examine circuit breakers, bulkheads, retries, service meshes, and Kubernetes for resilient microservices. You'll learn to recommend failure-containment controls and plan availability validation using distributed tracing, service-level objectives (SLOs), and chaos engineering. What sets this course apart is its end-to-end focus on architectural decisions: from routing and data consistency to failure recovery and controlled resilience testing. Enroll to make informed choices for highly available distributed systems.

Evaluate high availability requirements, redundancy models, and active-active versus active-passive designs. Compare Layer 4, Layer 7, DNS, and Anycast routing to recommend traffic distribution and failover strategies.

What's included

4 videos3 assignments

4 videosTotal 35 minutes

High Availability and Active-Active Design11 minutes
Active-Passive Failover Architecture9 minutes
Layer 4 and Layer 7 Load Balancing9 minutes
Global DNS Load Balancing7 minutes

3 assignmentsTotal 50 minutes

Availability Architectures and Failover Strategies10 minutes
Routing Traffic Across Services and Regions10 minutes
Building the Foundations of High Availability30 minutes

Analyze CAP and PACELC trade-offs, replication models, distributed consensus, and conflict resolution. Evaluate database, cache, and Kafka synchronization approaches for multi-region applications.

What's included

6 videos4 assignments

6 videosTotal 46 minutes

CAP Theorem in Distributed Systems9 minutes
Synchronous Data Replication7 minutes
Distributed Consensus with Paxos10 minutes
Multi-Region Relational Databases6 minutes
Multi-Region Cache Invalidation8 minutes
Cross-Region Kafka Replication6 minutes

4 assignmentsTotal 60 minutes

Balancing Consistency and Replication10 minutes
Reaching Consensus Across Regions10 minutes
Synchronizing Caches and Event Streams10 minutes
Keeping Distributed Data Consistent30 minutes

Evaluate circuit breakers, bulkheads, retries, and recovery controls for resilient microservices. Explain the roles of service meshes and Kubernetes, and plan availability validation using observability, SLOs, and chaos engineering.

What's included

4 videos3 assignments

4 videosTotal 30 minutes

Circuit Breakers for Microservice Resilience6 minutes
High Availability vs Disaster Recovery8 minutes
Microservices for High Availability9 minutes
Distributed Tracing and Chaos Engineering7 minutes

3 assignmentsTotal 50 minutes

Containing Failures and Planning Recovery10 minutes
Building and Testing Highly Available Microservices10 minutes
Designing and Validating Resilient Services30 minutes

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