Multi-Region Deployment Language
Intermediate
Active-Active vs. Active-Passive Architectures
Primary region, secondary region, warm standby, cold standby, hot standby — all regions serving traffic simultaneously.
Intermediate
Failover Vocabulary
Automatic vs. manual failover, RPO, RTO, failback, data replication lag, failover runbook language.
Intermediate
Geo-Distribution Vocabulary
Latency-based routing, geolocation routing, anycast, CDN PoP, data sovereignty, data residency requirements.
Advanced
Multi-Region Data Vocabulary
Cross-region replication, eventual vs. strong consistency, read replicas, global tables, multi-master replication, CRDTs.
Advanced
Disaster Recovery Vocabulary
DR plan vocabulary, DR tiers, DR drills, business continuity language, communicating RTO/RPO to business stakeholders.
Advanced
Global Capacity Planning Vocabulary
N+1 region redundancy, regional capacity, traffic shifting, global load balancer vocabulary.