Principles for Designing Always-On Applications

In this report, Haytham Elkhoja explores ways to reconcile the potential of cloud platforms with the intricate requirements of reliability for mission-critical workloads. IT execs, cloud transformation officers, and aspiring CIOs will learn strategies for the successful adoption of cloud platforms and cloud native patterns, including:

• Exploring the nature of failures, outages, and disasters and the difference between resilience and reliability
• Learning the reliability of the cloud application architecture, deployment method, and operation to achieve always-on mission-critical services
• Delving into multiactive architectures and application reliability patterns, including actionable guiding principles
• Learning how to foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation to operate always-on services

Haytham Elkhoja is a Principal Architect and Director – Office of the CTO, at Kyndryl