Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Single point of failure: Partial Remedies

This post is in continuation of earlier blog. Here I have listed few of strategies and techniques which can be utilized to minimize the impact of single point of failures:

  1. SSO: Application users (for example users used for integration) should not pass through SSO mechanism.
  2. MDM: Employ distributed and segregated MDM on the basis of business objects. It means Customer Master and Partner Master should be running on two different MDMs.
  3. Use separate servers to preserve audit, log and error data. These servers must be separate from business servers. This technique is pretty good while employing in Integration (EAI and B2B) and BPM.
Reference: http://architecture-soa-bpm-eai.blogspot.com/2011/07/single-point-of-failure-in-enterprise.html

1 comment:

  1. Hi,
    Thanks for the wonderful post.Can you please elaborate on point number 1 and 3.
    Point 1: If we don't use SSO for application specific users, what should be alternative way for authenticating them.Do you means that it is be done by individual LDAP and hence we can survive SSO failure
    Point 3: How is audit,log and error data on different servers going to help as we can't rollback the actual data incase of failure of BPM.
    Regards
    Rajiv

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