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A. Png, L. DemancheGetting Started with Oracle Cloud Free Tierhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6011-1_8

8. Load Balancers

Adrian Png1  and Luc Demanche2
(1)
Vancouver, BC, Canada
(2)
Montreal, QC, Canada
 

Load balancers are an important component for defining scalable and high-availability web application infrastructures. They are responsible for directing incoming network traffic to backend servers using predefined policies and algorithms.

While several networking equipment manufacturers offer dedicated, hardware-based load balancers, there are also many solutions using only software to provide these services. Generally, most cloud vendors offer load balancers as a software-defined network component, including the ...

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