Consistent Disaster Recovery for Microservices: the BAC Theorem

@article{Pardon2018ConsistentDR,
  title={Consistent Disaster Recovery for Microservices: the BAC Theorem},
  author={Guy Pardon and Cesare Pautasso and Olaf Zimmermann},
  journal={IEEE Cloud Computing},
  year={2018},
  volume={5},
  pages={49-59}
}
How do you back up a microservice? You dump its database. But how do you back up an entire application decomposed into microservices? In this article, we discuss the tradeoff between the availability and consistency of a microservice-based architecture when a backup of the entire application is being performed. We demonstrate that service designers have to select two out of three qualities: backup, availability, and/or consistency (BAC). Service designers must also consider how to deal with… 
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