System Design - Load Balancer

Load Balancer Balance incoming traffic to multiple servers. Software or Hardware based. Used to improve reliability and scalability of application. Nginx, HAProxy, F5, Citrix Load Balancer Routing Methods Round Robin. Simplest type of routing. Can result in uneven traffic. For certain applications, not all requests are the same, some can have very database queries and results could be just by chance. Least Connections. Routes based on number of client connections to server....

March 7, 2017 · 2 min · 394 words · Eric