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The Load Balancer's Silent Betrayal: Misrouted Traffic
A deep look at how load balancer (Load Balancer) misconfigurations affect system performance and the issues that cause traffic to get misrouted.
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The 'Thundering Herd' Problem in Distributed Systems: Anatomy of a…
Take a deep look at the 'Thundering Herd' problem that threatens performance and stability in distributed systems. Understand this destructive effect and…
Technology
Load Balancer, Keepalive, and Retry Budgets for gRPC/HTTP2 Traffic
A practical architecture and operations guide for handling long-lived HTTP/2 connections, idle timeouts, and retry storms without losing your SLO.
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Sticky Sessions and Load Balancer Decisions for Stateful Traffic
When are sticky sessions essential and when are they technical debt for WebSocket, long TCP sessions and stateful applications? A decision matrix grounded…
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Health Check Blindness in L4 Pools: Failover and Blackholes
When pool members appear 'UP' but traffic vanishes, combining active checks with passive signals to design failover that actually reflects reality.