Load balancing is a basic function for managing a website, distributing traffic among multiple web servers and adding needed fault tolerance. But load balancers don't run well without being configured ...

GitHub has been at work for the last year to develop a new load balancer, the GitHub Load Balancer (GLB), aimed to be able to scale to billions of connections per day running on commodity hardware ...

Nginx is among the most popular load balancers and reverse proxy servers for enterprises. Here's how to quickly setup Nginx as a load balancer and configure weighted nodes and sticky sessions.

AI-defined load balancing It’s only fitting that load balancing in the AI era employs AI to get the job done, and it does so across three key dimensions.

Advantages of Using an Open Source Load Balancer 1. Cost-Effective Open source load balancers allow organizations to optimize resources and reduce costs thanks to their high degree of customization.

Load balancers have been a core part of application infrastructure since the mid-1990s. The load balancer, located between the application layer and network infrastructure, ensures high ...

Load balancers used to be fairly simple, distributing user requests from the Internet to a group of servers instead of just one. Between the drive to differentiate themselves and the increasing ...

Facebook wrote the load-balancing software, Katran, because existing load balancers can't handle the size of the social media giant's systems.