Five Best Practices for Highly Available Applications with Cloud SQL

Discover five essential best practices for ensuring highly available applications with Cloud SQL in this 45-minute conference talk from Google Cloud Next. Learn how to optimize Cloud SQL instance performance, implement high availability and disaster recovery strategies, and manage seamless connectivity and backups for business continuity. Explore techniques for maximizing availability, improving maintenance experiences, and planning for both planned and unplanned downtime. Gain insights on zonal and regional high availability configurations, user error recovery, and point-in-time recovery options. Benefit from the expertise of speakers Gopal Ashok, Rahul Deshmukh, and Jonathan Blais as they share time-tested practices relied upon by top Google Cloud customers for their enterprise workloads.

Introduction
How to maximize availability
Maintenance experience
Flexibility
New features
Selfservice maintenance
Reduce maintenance downtime
Customer feedback
Third best practice
Planning for unplanned downtime
High availability for zonal failure
High availability for regional failure
User error recovery
Point in time recovery
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