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\n<\/strong>I spend most of my professional life consulting for Internet\/Mobility\/SaaS companies across Southeast Asia, MiddleEast and US as MySQL Architect, I am accountable for MySQL Infrastructure Operations, Site Reliability, Performance, Scalability and High Availability of my customer MySQL Infrastructure. My customers are from diversified industries like Mobile Advertisement Networks, Online Commerce, Mobile Social Media Gaming and SaaS, The DATA<\/strong> is business for them and Database Infrastructure Outage is the worst thing which could ever happen so “Maximum MySQL Availability” is something I am very serious about !!! Being an MySQL consultant I get to meet new customers almost every week and most of them ask me a very common question “How we can be Optimal, Scalable an Highly Available ? ” , I will ask them back “what can be maximum duration (in hours) of MySQL outage you could ever afford? ” Many of them will reply “We have \u00a0to be available 24*7*365”, WOW, Great to hear but in real life it’s IMPOSSIBLE !!!<\/strong>\u00a0Being an independent MySQL consultant I am very serious about my professional reputation and I always feel comfortable in sharing good, bad and ugly side of MySQL infrastructure operations! There are some customers who appreciate being upfront and some who consider me pessimistic but eventually I will be signing common MySQL Infrastructure Operations Management<\/strong>\u00a0SLA<\/strong>\u00a0for all of them mentioning Possible MySQL Outage Scenarios<\/strong> , Time-To-Recover<\/strong> , Recovery & Healing, HealthCheck\/Diagnostics\/Forensics, Performance, Scalability<\/strong> and Emergency Response \/ On-Call<\/strong>\u00a0. In this post I am addressing Cost-of-Data-Outage. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span>Cost-of-Data-Outage <\/strong>is\u00a0expensive for every corporation from all directions like revenue, brand reputation and eventually customer experience. Think about travel booking site going offline during holiday season or Ad-Network going down during shopping festival, The damage is not just limited to web\/mobile property but even to strategic partners involved in it like hotels signed-up with travel site or E-commerce platform partnered with Ad-Network so everyone consider “Data Outage” serious but can you ever promise anyone 100% availability of your data infrastructure, The honest answer will be NO!!! This doesn’t mean we are ignorant about “Data Outage” but to architect & implement “Maximum Availability Architecture” you need to know Cost-of-Data-Outage. Building Self Healing \/ Auto Failover, Fault Tolerant, Highly Available and Responsive MySQL Infrastructure Operations is expensive ($$$), Resource Intensive and Operationally Complex so plan carefully for Budget, People, Roadmap and Housekeeping\/Operations while concluding MySQL Maximum Availability Strategy.<\/strong><\/p>\n