Azure Networking Cookbook

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With backend pools, we define targets to which traffic will be forwarded. As the application gateway allows us to define routing by request type, it's best to have targets based on performance and types grouped in same way. For example, if we have multiple web servers, these should be placed in the same backend pool. Servers used for data processing should be placed in a separate pool, and servers used for video in another separate pool. This way, we can separate pools based on performance types and route traffic based on operations that need to be completed.

This will increase the performance of our application, as each request will be processed by the resource best suited for a specific task. To achieve high availability, ...