Blueriq can be used in a hosting environment where high availability is a requirement. This article will talk about the why, the when and the how of setting up Blueriq services in with aforementioned requirements in mind.

Why to

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Use Failover

Let's first explore how Blueriq approaches the topic of high availability.

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Therefore making your Blueriq stack highly available and user session data safe, we made Blueriq services store their state in external high performance data stores, in our case Redis. This way the components of Blueriq that have session management can be setup in a failover cluster, therefore enabling redundancy.

When to

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Use Failover

Blueriq usually runs in an environment with multiple other hosted applications. It is important to take in account all the variables of your specific solutions needs. The documentation about the subject failover is primarily meant to advise on when and how to use failover. We offer certain functionality and it is up too the professionals implementing the solution too make the decisions on how to use functionality in this solution. How does Blueriq fit in your infrastructure? What technical requirements do you have as a team and organization?

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* Switching to newer major versions of Blueriq components might still require you to have downtime.

How to

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Use Failover

Setting up Blueriq to support failover scenarios requires you to set up clusters of your Blueriq services.

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