Server farms achieve high scalability and high availability through server load balancing, a technique that makes the server farm appear to clients as a single server. In this two-part article, Gregor ...

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The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

Google is giving up yet another of its internal projects to the open-source world. Its latest contribution is called Seesaw, and it’s described as a load-balancing platform based on Linux built using ...

It is easy to understand the lure of the public cloud’s siren call. There’s the flexibility and agility to enable immediate elastic scaling up or down as needed, the tools and services needed for ...

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Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

HAProxy provides market-leading performance efficiency that represents significant cost advantages over traditional ADC ...