Planning for SaaS Infrastructure Failure – part 1

There's nothing quite like a good Single Point of Failure (SPOF) during a holiday dinner. Most folks I talk to immediately think of network redundancy when I bring up this topic and tend to look at me strangely when I talk about other parts of their infrastructure. I thought I'd throw a short post together on how to plan for failure in your SaaS infrastructure but, as usual, it's turned into a much longer post than I've intended and I'm going to break this post into three parts. Here we go with part 1.