Imagine that you are given a large budget and a team of
competent sysadmins/devops engineers. Your boss has requested that
you develop a plan to deploy the company’s latest web application
in their on-site datacenter. You have the freedom to recommend
servers, extra components (RAM, HDDs, SSDs, network cards, etc),
and additional hardware purchases as needed. The primary goal is to
design the overall system so that it can provide high levels of
uptime even in the presence of minor maintenance (OS reboots, HDD
hot-swaps) or major issues (motherboard failures, network card
failure, power outages).
Write a couple paragraphs that provides your recommendations for
creating a robust deployment which can attempt to mitigate the
various failures that were mentioned. It’s perfectly fine to
discuss software architecture choices along with your suggested
hardware design considerations.
Imagine that you are given a large budget and a team of competent sysadmins/devops engineers. Your boss has requested th
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