Consistent Disaster Recovery for Microservices: the CAB Theorem
Guy Pardon, Cesare Pautasso · IEEE Cloud Computing · 2017
How do you backup a Microservice? You dump its database. How do you backup an entire application decomposed into microservices? In this paper we discuss the tradeoff between the availability and consistency of a microservice-based architecture, when the backup of the entire system is being performed.