Geo-Distributed APIs & Disaster Recovery
Explore strategies for deploying geo-distributed APIs and implementing robust disaster recovery plans to ensure high availability across regions.
APIs Across the Globe
In this lesson, we'll explore how to design APIs that span multiple geographical regions. This approach, known as geo-distribution, is crucial for achieving high availability and low latency for a global user base.
We'll also dive into Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies, which are plans to ensure your API remains operational or recovers quickly after significant outages.
Why Geo-Distribute APIs?
Deploying your API in multiple regions offers two main benefits:
- Reduced Latency: Users connect to the closest server, minimizing network travel time.
- Enhanced Resilience: If one region fails, traffic can be routed to another, preventing a total outage.
This provides a better experience and stronger reliability.
All lessons in this course
- Circuit Breakers and Bulkheads
- Idempotency and Retry Mechanisms
- Geo-Distributed APIs & Disaster Recovery
- Rate-Based Load Shedding and Backpressure