[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":801},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-load-balancing":3,"blog-all-for-related":335},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"cardAlt":318,"categories":319,"description":322,"draft":323,"extension":324,"headerImage":325,"keywords":326,"meta":327,"name":328,"navigation":329,"path":330,"seo":331,"series":6,"stem":332,"updated":6,"year":333,"__hash__":334},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fload-balancing.md","Load Balancing 101",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":313},"minimark",[10,14,31],[11,12,13],"p",{},"In today's world, businesses want to deliver best user experience to their customers. Most applications with large userbase need to serve millions of request in efficient manner. Just having a single server is not enough to ensure high availability and reliability. Most organizations usually have multiple servers to handle load on their applications. Load balancing is an important component in reliable handling of customer requests even when one or more servers are impacted due to some reason.",[15,16,17],"blockquote",{},[11,18,19],{},[20,21,22,23,30],"strong",{},"Preparing for Interviews? I highly recommend ",[24,25,29],"a",{"href":26,"rel":27},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.educative.io\u002Fcourses\u002Fgrokking-the-system-design-interview?aff=K3zN",[28],"nofollow","Mastering System Design"," course on Educative.",[32,33,34,39,49,52,55],"ads",{},[35,36,38],"h2",{"id":37},"what-is-load-balancing","What is Load Balancing?",[11,40,41,48],{},[24,42,45],{"href":43,"rel":44},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FLoad_balancing_(computing)",[28],[20,46,47],{},"Load balancing"," refers to process of efficiently distributing incoming network traffic across multiple servers. The main task of load balancer is to ensure that no single server is flooded with too many request. This enhances responsiveness and increases availability of applications for users.",[11,50,51],{},"You can think of load balancer as a middle man that manages the flow of information between the servers and an endpoint device (mobile apps, websites, etc). Load balancers conduct continuous health checks on servers to ensure they can handle requests. It can also remove unhealthy servers from the pool until they are restored.",[11,53,54],{},"Let's deep dive into the working of a Load Balancer.",[32,56,57,60,64,71,74,105,107,112,115,118,133,135,139,142,145,147,151,154,158,161,165,168,172,175,179,182],{},[58,59],"hr",{},[35,61,63],{"id":62},"how-load-balancing-works","How load balancing works",[11,65,66],{},[67,68],"img",{"alt":69,"src":70},"How load balancer works","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.mohitkhare.com\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fload-balancing\u002Fbasic-load-balancer.webp",[11,72,73],{},"As mentioned above, the load balancer (LB) sits in between server and client. Let's see how a load balancer processes request through a basic flow.",[75,76,77,81,84,87,96,99,102],"ul",{},[78,79,80],"li",{},"Client makes a request to server.",[78,82,83],{},"The request arrives at load balancer and it accepts the request.",[78,85,86],{},"It decides which host should receive this request based on a set of parameters. LB then updates the destination IP (and possibly port) to the service of the selected host.",[78,88,89,90,95],{},"LB performs a bi-directional ",[24,91,94],{"href":92,"rel":93},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FNetwork_address_translation",[28],"NAT"," (Network Address Translation) to update the destination IP",[78,97,98],{},"The host accepts the connection and responds back to LB.",[78,100,101],{},"Load balancer intercepts the response packet from host (server) and now changes the source IP to client.",[78,103,104],{},"The client finally receives the return packet from LB.",[58,106],{},[108,109,111],"h3",{"id":110},"smart-selection","Smart selection",[11,113,114],{},"Awesome. We just learned how a request is processed. This looks simple right? True, but you might think how does the Load Balancer smartly determines which host can handle request in best way. 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Most load balancers handle this using health monitoring to determine whether a host is in working state or not. A very basic monitoring technique is to just make a ping request to the host. If the host does not respond to the ping, we can assume that any services defined on the host are probably down. If a host is down, then we need to update the list of available host to prevent this host being selected.",[11,143,144],{},"There are smarter health monitors that make service pings since pinging host is not sufficient to determine whether service is working or not.",[58,146],{},[35,148,150],{"id":149},"load-balancing-algorithms","Load Balancing Algorithms",[11,152,153],{},"There are multiple algorithms that are used for load balancing based on number of connections, server response time, IP addresses, etc.",[108,155,157],{"id":156},"least-connection-method","Least Connection Method",[11,159,160],{},"As the name suggests, the load balancer directs traffic to the server with the least number of active connections. The idea is to distribute the request evenly across all servers.",[108,162,164],{"id":163},"least-response-time-method","Least Response Time Method",[11,166,167],{},"In this method the traffic is directed to the server with least active connections and the lowest average response time. This method ensures quick response time for end clients.",[108,169,171],{"id":170},"round-robin-method","Round Robin Method",[11,173,174],{},"One of the most commonly used methods. In this the load balancer maintains a queue of server. It rotates servers by directing traffic to the first available server and then moves that server to the bottom of the queue. There are two types of Round Robin – Weighted Round Robin and Dynamic Round Robin",[108,176,178],{"id":177},"source-and-destination-ip-hash-method","Source and Destination IP Hash Method",[11,180,181],{},"The server is selected based on a unique hash key. 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This allows routing decisions based on attributes like HTTP header, uniform resource identifier, SSL session ID and HTML form data.",[108,206,208],{"id":207},"global-vs-dns-load-balancers","Global vs DNS Load Balancers",[75,210,211,214],{},[78,212,213],{},"GSLB — Global Server Load Balancing extends L4 and L7 capabilities to servers in different geographic locations.",[78,215,216],{},"DNS - In this we configure a domain in DNS that serves to client request. Eg. If you need admin data, DNS load balancer would direct all admin request to specific domain defined in DNS.",[108,218,220],{"id":219},"hardware-vs-software-load-balancers","Hardware vs Software Load Balancers",[75,222,223,226],{},[78,224,225],{},"Software - these are softwares installed on cloud that act as a load balancer. 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Learn how to master 1:1s with your manager and peers.",[657,341],"Career","2023-03-05",{"path":660,"title":661,"description":662,"categories":663,"draft":323,"year":664,"series":6},"\u002Fblog\u002Fpersonal-okrs","Personal OKRs for Success","Why one should set personal OKRs and how to achieve success with them",[341,356],"2020-06-27",{"path":666,"title":667,"description":668,"categories":669,"draft":323,"year":671,"series":6},"\u002Fblog\u002Fpoker-tips","Poker Tips: Johns Hopkins Poker Class","Notes from Johns Hopkins poker course. This guide will help you improve in Poker and win some large pots.",[356,670],"Poker","2020-06-13",{"path":673,"title":674,"description":675,"categories":676,"draft":323,"year":677,"series":6},"\u002Fblog\u002Fpomodoro","Get work done: The Pomo Way","Learn to focus and get productive by following the Pomodoro Technique",[341],"2020-10-24",{"path":679,"title":680,"description":681,"categories":682,"draft":323,"year":683,"series":6},"\u002Fblog\u002Fpostgres-constraints","Postgres Constraints","Constraints are line of defense for database. 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