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Load Balancer Basics

Load balancers are crucial for distributing incoming traffic across multiple servers, enhancing application performance, availability, and scalability. They ensure high availability by redirecting traffic from failed servers, manage SSL encryption to improve server performance, and support session persistence for user sessions. Additionally, load balancers facilitate horizontal scaling and continuously monitor server health to maintain optimal performance.

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Load Balancer Basics

Load balancers are crucial for distributing incoming traffic across multiple servers, enhancing application performance, availability, and scalability. They ensure high availability by redirecting traffic from failed servers, manage SSL encryption to improve server performance, and support session persistence for user sessions. Additionally, load balancers facilitate horizontal scaling and continuously monitor server health to maintain optimal performance.

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Load Balancer Basics

Load balancers are essential components in modern application


architectures, designed to distribute incoming traffic efficiently across
multiple servers. Load balancers improve application performance,
availability, and scalability.

Traffic Distribution:
Load balancers evenly distribute incoming traffic among a pool of servers,
ensuring optimal resource utilization and preventing any single server from
becoming overwhelmed. Algorithms like round-robin or least connections are
used to select the most suitable server for each request.

High Availability:
If a server fails, the load balancer automatically redirects traffic to the
remaining healthy servers. This ensures that the application remains
accessible even in the event of server failures, minimizing downtime and
improving overall availability.

SSL Termination:
Load balancers can handle SSL/TLS encryption and decryption, offloading
this CPU-intensive task from backend servers. This improves server
performance and simplifies SSL certificate management.

Session Persistence:
For applications that require maintaining user sessions on a specific server,
load balancers support session persistence. They ensure that subsequent
requests from a user are consistently routed to the same server, preserving
session integrity.

Scalability:
Load balancers facilitate horizontal scaling by allowing easy addition of
servers to the pool. As traffic increases, new servers can be provisioned, and
the load balancer will automatically distribute the load across all servers,
enabling seamless scalability.

Health Monitoring:
Load balancers continuously monitor server health and performance. They
exclude unhealthy servers from the pool, ensuring that only healthy servers
handle incoming requests. This proactive monitoring maintains optimal
application performance.

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