SRE Data Pipelines & Integrity: Data Integrity

Data integrity is vital as it ensures end-user data accuracy and consistency in conjunction with an adequate level of service and availability. In this course youll learn how to choose a strategy for data integrity including how to account for any potential upsides and tradeoffs. Youll explore various types of failures that lead to data loss and the existence of the many data failure modes. Youll also identify data integrity challenges. Next youll examine in detail the soft deletion back up and recovery and early detection layers of defense-in-depth before investigating the data integrity challenges a cloud developer may encounter in high-velocity environments. Finally youll outline considerations for implementing out-of-band data validation and successful data recovery and identify how the primary SRE principles apply to data integrity.