Chris Phillips’ Blog - API, Integration and Governance

Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective are the most important requirements designing a HA or DR solution. High Availability (HA) will have a very low RTO and RPO, is automatic and usually achieved by having multiple systems running concurrently. Disaster Recovery is normally a longer manual process that often is triggered when a DataCenter has had a disaster, In this Article I will go through the time line that needs to be considered for an RTO. I will not go into RPO details here but I will probably do a follow up article if it is requested.

I spend a lot of time advising clients on what they need to keep their system operational. The topic of a RunBook / Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is always interesting. In my experience only 50-60% of clients have one, 30% of clients know what should go into one but have not yet written it and 10% of clients don’t think they need it.

Occasionally we delete the wrong object from the wrong OCP cluster, at least I did. This caused the error above to occur.

Just a quick note to say I have released version 1.5 of the API Connect v10.x Whitepaper. The changes are relatively minor

Just a quick note to say I have released version 1.5 of the API Connect v10.x Whitepaper. The changes are relatively minor

IBM Cloud Object Storage is IBMs S3 offerring.

When installing IBM Cloud Packs 2021.x you get the option of having a dashboard for each namespace. This dashboard allows all CloudPaks in the same namespace to share a single pain of glass for various information.

DataPower contains a file called DPmon that stores nmon information. This is extremely useful for investigating resource constraints

When deploying API Connect with a Developer portal you specify the end point that end users must to connect to the developer portal. However some deployments require a subset of the developer portal sites to be accesible from a different hostname.