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Everything about High availability
Systems with high up-time, a.k.a. "always on"
High availability (HA) is a characteristic of a system that aims to ensure an agreed level of operational performance, usually uptime, for a higher than normal period. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: High availabilityA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: High N availability decreases N uptake and yield under limited water availability in maizeInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: High availabilityThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Providing high availability using lazy replicationCited 260 times
- Go sideways: AvailabilityA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Continuous availabilityA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Providing high availability using lazy replication
High-availability computer systems
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Rethinking database high availability with RDMA networks
RemusDB: transparent high availability for database systems
ARIES-RS maintenance approach for high availability
Piranha: a CORBA tool for high availability
Achieving high availability in distributed databases
🆕 Influential since 2022
High N availability decreases N uptake and yield under limited water availability in maize
High-availability clusters: A taxonomy, survey, and future directions
An ICN-Based IPFS High-Availability Architecture
Achieving High Availability in Inter-DC WAN Traffic Engineering
Artificial Intelligence for High-Availability Systems: A Comprehensive Review
📚 Books worth reading
High availabilityFloyd Piedad, Michael Hawkins · 2000- 📕Designing High Availability SystemsZachary Taylor, Subramanyam Ranganathan · 2013
Blueprints for high availabilityEvan Marcus · 2000
High availability IT servicesTerry Critchley · 2014- 📕Network Infrastructure and ArchitectureKrzysztof Iniewski, Carl McCrosky · 2007
- 📕JUNOS High AvailabilityJames Sonderegger, Orin Blomberg · 2009
- 📕Blueprints for High AvailabilityEvan Marcus, Hal Stern · 2003
High availability guide to DB2Chris Eaton, Enzo Cialini · 2004
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