GEO Failover Made Easy with Consul

James Phillips, Consul Engineer at HashiCorp

GEO Failover Made Easy with Consul

Reliability and uptime are crucial components of the modern data center. In unpredictable cloud environments, building highly-resilient applications is a requirement. This technical talk examines the more detailed parts of Consul such as the gossip protocol, nearest neighbor detection using network coordinates, WAN clustering, and prepared queries. Together, these components enable seamless geographic failover simply by changing foo.service.consul to foo.query.consul, increasing service reliability and availability. --

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