Mastering Load Balancing

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What is the purpose of load balancers?

The purpose of load balancers is to distribute incoming requests and traffic evenly across multiple servers.

What are the benefits of using load balancers?

The benefits of using load balancers include high availability, reliability, and performance by avoiding overloading a single server and preventing downtime.

Where can load balancers be added in a system?

Load balancers can be added between the user and the web server, between web servers and an internal platform layer (application servers or cache servers), and between the internal platform layer and the database.

What is a load balancer?

<p>A load balancer is a device or software that distributes network traffic across multiple servers based on predefined rules or algorithms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are backend servers?

<p>Backend servers are servers that receive and process requests forwarded by the load balancer (also known as server pool or server farm).</p> Signup and view all the answers