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Project BG3: Resilience
A lot of thought has been put into the resiliency of the BG3 application as the
failure of a practice management system can have a huge impact on the operation
of the veterinary practice.
Application & Database Resilience
The lightweight technologies used by the BG3 application means that should an
issue arise with the server at one site, users can continue to operate by
connecting to a server at an alternate site (requires an internet connection
between sites).
Resources
Any documents or resources attached to an account (e.g. letters, faxes, emails,
digital x-ray images etc) are encrypted and copied off-site to the Amazon Simple Storage System (Amazon S3).
Amazon S3 is a service provided by Amazon
that allows applications to use the same highly scalable, reliable, fast,
inexpensive data storage infrastructure that they use to run their own global
network of web sites.
The Amazon S3 system was designed with the following requirements in mind,
- Scalable
- Reliable - data must be stored durably with 99.99% availability. There
can be no single points of failure. All failures must be tolerated or repaired
by the system without any downtime.
- Fast - the system must be fast e - the system must be fast enough to support high-performance
applications.
Use of Amazon S3 is particularly beneficial for multi-site practices as
resources can be stored centrally with fast, reliable access whenever the
resource is required.