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Load Balancers are literally 100 times better than a good old traffic signal. They can handle millions of incoming requests, distribute traffic between servers and generally keep things smooth with minimal configuration. Why? Because Load Balancers can use some really nice algorithms on the fly. Broadly, there are two categories of these algorithms: ✅ Static - Round Robin - Sticky Round Robin - Hash - Weighted Round Robin ✅ Dynamic - Least Connections - Least Response Time Let’s look at each algorithm in a little more detail 👉 Round Robin - Requests are distributed sequentially across a group of servers. - No guarantee that multiple requests from a user will reach the same instance. 👉Sticky Round Robin - A better alternative to round-robin - Different requests from the same user go to the same instance 👉 Hash-Based - The algorithm distributes requests based on the hash of a key value. - The key can be the IP address or the URL of the request 👉 Weighted Round Robin - Each server gets a weight value. - This value determines the proportion of traffic. - Servers with higher weight receive more traffic. Good for setups having servers at different capacity levels 👉Least Connections - A new request is sent to the server instance with the least number of connections. - The number of connections is determined based on the relative compute capacity of a server 👉Least Response Time - A new request is sent to the server with the lowest response time in order to minimize the overall response time. - Good for cases where response time is critical. === That's all for now! If you enjoyed this explanation of Load Balancers and the various algorithms they use, what are you waiting for? - Test the Load Balancing of the LIKE button - REPOST to share the information with others - BOOKMARK for future reference - Follow me for more stuff like this.

Load Balancers are literally 100 times better than a good old traffic signal. They can handle millions of incoming requests, distribute traffic between servers and generally keep things smooth with minimal configuration. Why? Because Load Balancers can use some really nice algorithms on the fly. Broadly, there are two categories of these algorithms: (don't forget to bookmark) ✅ Static - Round Robin - Sticky Round Robin - Hash - Weighted Round Robin ✅ Dynamic - Least Connections - Least Response Time Let’s look at each algorithm in a little more detail: 👉 Round Robin - Requests are distributed sequentially across a group of servers. - No guarantee that multiple requests from a user will reach the same instance. 👉 Sticky Round Robin - A better alternative to round-robin - Different requests from the same user go to the same instance 👉 Hash-Based - The algorithm distributes requests based on the hash of a key value. - The key can be the IP address or the URL of the request 👉 Weighted Round Robin - Each server gets a weight value. - This value determines the proportion of traffic. - Servers with higher weight receive more traffic. Good for setups having servers at different capacity levels 👉 Least Connections - A new request is sent to the server instance with the least number of connections. - The number of connections is determined based on the relative compute capacity of a server 👉 Least Response Time - A new request is sent to the server with the lowest response time in order to minimize the overall response time. - Good for cases where response time is critical. === That's all for now! If you enjoyed this explanation of Load Balancers and the various algorithms they use, what are you waiting for? - Destroy the LIKE button - REPOST so that everyone can choose the right load-balancing algorithm - BOOKMARK for future reference - Follow me for more stuff like this.