Redundant three-tier architectures add another set of the same components for redundancy. Additional design components do increase complexity, but are required if designing for failover and recovery protection. Designing redundant infrastructures requires a well thought out plan for the components within each layer (horizontal scaling), as well as a plan for how the traffic will flow from one layer to another (vertical scaling).
Get Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.
Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.
Start your free trial Become a member now