The Multi-Region Mandate
Beyond high-availability on Azure and AWS. Why single-region HA is a single point of failure and how to move to active-active multi-region failover.
Resources
Perspectives.
Our perspectives on multi-region resilience, scaling for demand spikes, and observable governance.
Read our take on each topic and reach out to discuss.
Perspectives
Surviving the Thundering Herd
Why auto-scaling is the slowest way to fail when 100,000 users hit at launch. Edge-native pre-emption and database-aware design for Season Open and Product Drop.
Key-Person Risk in the Age of Job Hopping
Why your best operators think about leaving, how messy infrastructure amplifies that risk, and how managed, boring-on-purpose platforms reduce key-person risk.
When Cloudflare Is Down
Cloudflare outages feel like the whole internet is down. How to think about provider risk, DNS vs edge vs origin, and when to add real resilience.
How to Configure Azure Front Door for Multi-Region Failover
Step-by-step: create a Front Door profile, add backends in multiple regions, set health probes and routing so traffic fails over when a region is unhealthy.
The Cost Trade-Offs of Active-Active vs Active-Passive SQL Replication
When to choose which: compute, storage, licensing, and ops. Lower cost and simpler ops vs near-instant failover.
Testing Regional Failover with Chaos Mesh in a Production Environment
Run Chaos Mesh safely: blast radius, runbooks, and step-by-step so your failover is a proven fact, not a hope.
When Technical Debt Bankrupts Trust: Availability Isn’t Resilience
Banking outages reveal a hard truth: uptime is not resilience if users cannot complete critical transactions.
When Technical Debt Bankrupts Trust: Runbooks Don’t Make Failover Real
Most DR plans pass audits but fail under pressure. Real resilience demands proven failover behavior.
When Technical Debt Bankrupts Trust: State Correctness and Escape Hatches
Fast rerouting means nothing if transaction state breaks. Design for correctness and independent fallback paths.
When DNS Is the Symptom, Not the Root Cause
AD and DNS incidents are often control-plane integrity failures wearing DNS symptoms. Recover by sequencing identity-first fixes.
Governance at Scale vs Truth at Scale
Two ICANN posts on AI and the 2026 new gTLD round: what changes around identifiers, what the Applicant Guidebook governs, and what brands can realistically control.