Questions tagged [load-balancing]
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Load Balancing of requests coming from a single client
I have a question regarding load balancing of a service. My load balancing requirement is as follows:
I will have multiple application servers for a non-http service. Application servers will be ...
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Is it a bad practice to use cookies for a Desktop Application?
I'm working on a Desktop App in C# that communicates with a Java backend hosted AWS.
I want to deploy on multiple instances and use an Application Load Balancer with sticky sessions but as Far as I ...
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Granularity of API Gateways to Service Balancers
OSS API Gateways typically come bundled with built-in load-balancing capabilities. We see this with Netflix Zuul and Kong.
In a service-oriented architecture, where many microservices are talking to ...
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Service discovery and load balancers with high-frequency health checks
I am trying to understand the advantages of service discovery compared to load-balancing within the context of a microservice mesh where many instances/nodes/VMs/containers of many web services are ...
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Load balancing the load balancers
Currently I have a system where I have installed HAProxy on one machine and my other 3 machines serves the webapps and the fourth machine for the database. Now I need to add another load balancer in ...
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What would be the best way to queue asynchronous calls received simultaneously by a web service cluster?
I have an API where every time is called there are multiple calls to multiple webservices in the background, sometimes it takes up to 20 seconds to process the request calling up to 10 different web ...
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What performance benefits does a Redis cluster have over having all machines connect to a single Redis node? [closed]
Suppose I have data that easily fits in memory in a redis database. The redis server runs as a single service on a single process on a single machine. Let's say I have a 100 different machines connect ...
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How do I know if my nodejs application is stateless or not?
According to documentation from PM: https://pm2.io/docs/runtime/guide/load-balancing/
To make use of its load balancing feature which uses node's clustering to spawn multiple node processes, I need a ...
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Alternatives to pessimistic locking in the DBMS for load balancing
A simplified version of my problem looks like this:
the database contains two tables:
one contains account balances (Accounts)
the other contains account withdrawal and deposit requests (Requests)
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How to dispatch sets of items to the relevant (LB) exclusive consumers with RabbitMQ?
I am trying to process sets of items (also, different sets have different items) in specific RabbitMQ consumers (one for each set of items) that would be created on-demand and are dispatched to the ...
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How can an anycast IP address handle millions of RPS (requests per second)
So, in terms of systems design:
given a highly scalable system being served through a single load-balanced anycast IP address,
when that system receives a load in the order of (hundreds of) millions ...
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How to do loadbalancing for collaborative editing with multi-az and geoproximity based routing policy
I am planning a project which has users collaboratively editing a document. To provide good latency to users, I am planning to deploy in multiple AWS regions with active-active mongodb replicas with ...
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Reverse Load Balancer: Out Balancer?
Load balancing in is a common topic, but there isn't as much said about load balancing out. I may have an application that can prepare 1mm requests/s but is unable to send them all out at that speed ...
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What should we consider when designing a load balancer with minimum cost
Given a set of processes running on a cluster of hosts, I'm designing a system that load balances the hosts through live migrations (carried out by an external service) of the processes.
The goal of ...
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Poll based database operations with a load balanced application
I have a .NET Core application that is hosted as multiple load balanced instances (separate servers, obviously pointing to the same database).
I have written a service within the application that ...
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