Load Balancer Strategies
Round-robin, least-connections, weighted, hash-based, power-of-two-choices. The traffic-shaping decision.
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Five LBs fed identical request streams with heterogeneous backend response times. Round-robin produces uneven latency due to slow backends. Least-connections balances better. Weighted matches capacity. Consistent-hash routes pinned clients. Power-of-two-choices picks the lesser of two random backends, approaching optimal with O(1) state.
Good for
- SRE articles on load balancing
- Service-mesh tutorials
- High-throughput system design
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