2.4 (Load Balancer)

Question 1

What are load balancers?

Answer 1

A load balancer acts as the “traffic cop” sitting in front of your servers and routing client requests across all servers capable of fulfilling those requests in a manner that maximizes speed and capacity utilization and ensures that no one server is overworked, which could degrade performance.

• Distributes loud
• Large scale implementations
• Fault tolerance

Question 2

What does a load balancer do?

Answer 2

It distributes via servers, and configs the load across the servers in the middle of them. If one goes down it accommodates with another etc.

• Caching
• QoS prioritisation
• Encryption
• Content config, application-centric balancing