Multi-Region Deployment Language

6 exercise sets · Practice vocabulary for discussing active-active architectures, failover strategies, geo-distribution, and disaster recovery in global systems.

Active-Active vs. Active-Passive Architectures

Primary region, secondary region, warm standby, cold standby, hot standby — all regions serving traffic simultaneously.

Failover Vocabulary

Automatic vs. manual failover, RPO, RTO, failback, data replication lag, failover runbook language.

Geo-Distribution Vocabulary

Latency-based routing, geolocation routing, anycast, CDN PoP, data sovereignty, data residency requirements.

Multi-Region Data Vocabulary

Cross-region replication, eventual vs. strong consistency, read replicas, global tables, multi-master replication, CRDTs.

Disaster Recovery Vocabulary

DR plan vocabulary, DR tiers, DR drills, business continuity language, communicating RTO/RPO to business stakeholders.

Global Capacity Planning Vocabulary

N+1 region redundancy, regional capacity, traffic shifting, global load balancer vocabulary.