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load balancer
This term is primarily used in technical contexts involving network architecture and cloud computing. It describes a mechanism for achieving high availability and reliability by preventing any single resource from becoming a bottleneck. While it can refer to a physical hardware appliance, it frequently refers to software-defined networking (SDN) solutions in modern virtualized environments.
In professional discourse, the term is often paired with specific strategies such as round-robin or least-connections, which dictate how the traffic is distributed. It is distinct from a proxy server, although many load balancers function as reverse proxies to manage incoming requests.
Meanings
Examples
We need to implement a load balancer to handle the surge in user traffic.
The load balancer distributes incoming requests across three different servers.
Is the load balancer configured for round robin or least connections?
I wonder if the load balancer is causing the latency issues we are seeing.
A hardware load balancer provides more power than a software based one.
The system crashed because the load balancer failed to redirect traffic.
Let us check the health check settings on the load balancer.
The cloud provider offers a managed load balancer as part of their infrastructure.