Load Balancing Strategies

October 05, 2022

In this article, we’ll be delving into Load Balancers.

We’ll talk about

  • The Purpose of Load Balancers

  • Load Balancer vs. API Gateway

  • Types of Load Balancers (L4 vs. L7)

  • Load Balancing Algorithms

    • Round Robin Algorithms

    • Least Connections

    • Hashing

    • Consistent Hashing

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