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Mastering JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7
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Mastering JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7

by Francesco Marchioni, Luigi Fugaro
August 2016
Intermediate to advanced
390 pages
8h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Load balancing with mod_cluster

mod_cluster is an HTTP-based load balancer that can be used to forward a request to a set of application server instances. Compared to legacy balancing solutions balancing solutions such as mod_jk or mod_proxy, mod_cluster provides the following benefits:

  • Dynamic balancing configuration
  • Pluggable server-side balancing metrics

As far as the first point is concerned, a load balancer is commonly based on a static list of servers where requests are directed. In many cases this can be a limiting factor especially when server nodes can be varied at runtime; besides this, maintaining a static list of servers is error-prone and needs to reshaped every time there is a change in your network.

About the next point, mod_cluster ...

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