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Back to Basics: Health Monitors and Load Balancing

#webperf #ado Because every connection counts One of the truisms of architecting highly available systems is that you never, ever want to load balance a request to a system that is down. Therefore...
Published Nov 21, 2012
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This is very interesting article sir. Can this insure that no request is dropped?

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