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SRE · Reliability Engineering · Advanced · 16 min read

Load Balancing at Scale: From DNS to the Datacenter

Frontend balancing with DNS and virtual IPs, datacenter balancing with subsetting and lame ducks, and choosing algorithms that avoid hot spots.

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