Keeping the Balance - Load Balancing Demystified

Dive into the intricacies of load balancing in this 31-minute conference talk from linux.conf.au. Explore the entire journey of an IP packet from users to binary, and gain a comprehensive understanding of web request paths. Uncover the tradeoffs between different load balancing techniques across network, transport, and application layers. Learn about various flavors of load balancing, including network, naming, and application, and their practical applications. Examine real-world use cases to determine the most appropriate load balancing approaches for specific scenarios. Discover design patterns for high-availability services that have evolved over time. Connect these techniques to popular open-source technologies and major cloud load balancing services. Walk away with a solid grasp of load balancing techniques, their strengths and weaknesses, criteria for evaluating different technologies, and a framework of heuristics for selecting the right load balancing pattern for your service.