High availability, store-level failover and disaster recovery

Elements

The pieces this function usually contains in a large organisation:

• Store server failover
• Offline queue replay
• Recovery runbooks
• Backup verification

Catalog items that already cover part of it

• Hub failover (promote a register) MULTI-0037
• Journal replay recovery FAIL-0013
• Dual-write journal (event log file) FAIL-0012

Classification

Status

Present in catalog

Fit

Core candidate

Suggested module

FAIL: Reliability, Failsafes & Edge Pathways

Suggested attributes

Lite and Pro; priority Standard; always offline. Starting points only.

Cluster

Platform, integration and IT operations

Public excerpts

domain analysis

Archetypes and companies

Big-box, warehouse club and mass merchants; Supermarket and grocery chains; Quick-service, coffee and franchised restaurants; Banks and credit unions; Health systems and hospitals.

Example companies in these archetypes: Walmart, Costco, Target, Sam's Club, BJ's Wholesale Club, Meijer, Kroger, Albertsons, Publix, Ahold Delhaize USA, H-E-B, Whole Foods Market. These come from general knowledge unless a source code is shown on the archetype page; it is not a statement that each company runs every element, and it implies no relationship.

Closest industry pages

• General merchandise and big-box stores
• Grocery and supermarkets
• Quick-service and fast casual
• Cafes, coffee shops and bakeries
• Banking, credit unions and cooperative banks
• Payments, remittance and money services
• Securities, asset management and diversified financials
• Savings groups, cooperatives and microfinance
• Hospitals and medical facilities
• Clinics, dental and private practices

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Status is a hand review against catalog names and descriptions and can be wrong. See the method.