Load Balancer
- A type of reverse proxy that distributes traffic across servers
- Often appear in many parts of a system
- Balances workloads across resources
Server-Selection Strategies
- How a load balancer chooses servers when distributing traffic
- Common strategies:
- Round-robin
- Random Selection
- Performance-based Selection
- Based on metrics like fastest response time, least amount of traffic, etc.
- IP-based routing