load balance
Spread computing tasks
Load balance means to distribute work, traffic, or demand across multiple resources to prevent any single one from becoming overwhelmed.
In computing, load balancing spreads network requests across servers: The system load balances incoming traffic between three data centers.
The term extends to any deliberate distribution of burden: We need to load balance these cases among the attorneys.
- distributeDivide and deliver
- serverOne who attends tables
- server farmFacility housing networked computers
- trafficMovement along routes
- clusterGathered group nearby
failover · redundancy · proxy · weight · capacity · throughput · equilibrium · scale · node · request · bandwidth · elastic · round-robin · overflow · strain · burden · juggle · spread
load balancecentralize
Unify under single control
concentrate · funnel · bottleneck · single point of failure · unicast
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