Chapter 06

Load Balancer

Distribute traffic across multiple app servers, and pick a load-balancing algorithm — round robin, least connections, or consistent hashing.

What You'll Learn in This Chapter:

✦Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancing
✦Round Robin & Weighted Round Robin
✦Consistent Hashing algorithms
✦Health checks and failover routing

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