A business-critical API must continue serving customers when a complete region becomes unavailable.
Start with objectives
Define RTO and RPO before selecting active-active or active-passive behavior. The data model often determines the architecture more strongly than the API layer does.
Failure testing
A failover design is incomplete until routing, application behavior, data recovery, and rollback have been exercised under controlled conditions.
Learning checkpoint
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