load balancer
Spreads server requests
A load balancer is a system that distributes incoming network traffic across multiple servers to prevent any single server from becoming overwhelmed.
It improves reliability, responsiveness, and availability by routing requests to whichever servers have capacity: The load balancer detected the outage and redirected traffic to healthy nodes.
Load balancers operate in data centers, cloud infrastructure, and web applications.
- serverOne who attends tables
- server farmFacility housing networked computers
- trafficMovement along routes
- proxyAuthorized substitute
- clusterGathered group nearby
distribute · round robin · network · round-robin · failover · backend · upstream · throughput · gateway · redirect · scaling · horizontal scaling · elastic · cloud · cloud computing · requests · latency · weighted
- softwaresoftware, app, apps, application, program
- safeguardssafeguards, safety valve, protections, kill switch, defenses
- IT Infrastructurecloud computing, data center, virtual machine, server, VM
- networking termsrouters, switches, servers, firewalls, modems
- power gridpower grid, power plant, transformers, power station, transmission lines
- optimizeralgorithm, scheduler, route planner, efficiency expert, tuner
load balancersingle point of failure
Lone vulnerable component
bottleneck · chokepoint · monolith · resource hog · queue
load, balancer, loads, loaded, loading, loader, loaders, unload, unloaded