Distributing Traffic for High Availability and Scalability
Understanding Load Balancing
Load balancing is the process of distributing incoming network traffic across multiple servers to ensure no single server becomes overwhelmed.
High Availability Strategies
High availability: redundant load balancers (active-passive, active-active), health checks (monitor backend health), failover
(automatic switching), session persistence (sticky sessions), SSL termination (offload SSL), connection draining (graceful)
Use connection draining
Monitor backend health
Implement proper logging
Frequently asked questions
How do I implement health checks?
How do I implement health checks?
Health checks monitor server availability?
Health checks monitor server availability and automatically remove unhealthy servers from the pool.
Sending periodic requests to health endpoints?
sending periodic requests to health endpoints, checking response codes and response times, removing servers that
Fail checks, and re-adding servers when?
fail checks, and re-adding servers when they recover. Configure health check intervals, timeout, and failure
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