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.

Load balancers have been a core part of application infrastructure since the mid-1990s. The load balancer, located between the application layer and network infrastructure, ensures high application ...

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Most breaches don’t outsmart your stack; they walk through a permissive load balancer you tuned for speed instead of trust. For a long time, I thought of the load balancer as a performance device. Its ...

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Werner Vogels, Amazon Web Services chief technology officer, in New York this morning. (Photo: Amazon) Werner Vogels, Amazon Web Services’s chief technology officer, this morning announced a new ...

This morning at a customer event in New York City, AWS CTO Werner Vogels announced a new load balancing tool, which gives developers much more fine-grained control over how content gets distributed ...

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 ...

Kemp Technologies is now offering a free version of its Loadmaster application load balancer, a move the company is hoping developers and DevOps managers will use for distributed workloads that don't ...

KEMP Technologies will now offer its application load balancing product for free. Jason Dover, director of product line management at KEMP, says providing LoadMaster for free should enable the company ...