Intro to Load Balancing for Developers – The Gotchas
Well, now that we have discussed how you got here, and what options load balancing offers you, let’s hit upon what you’re up against when porting your application to run under a load balancer. Many r...
Published Mar 25, 2009
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Hey Sriram!
Very cool that you're getting things done that are moving into production!
It's kind of hidden. Once you know where to look, it makes sense, but the first time it's a little painful. Log into the GUI, choose pools, select any pool, and then choose members. It's the first dropdown.
I can argue that makes sense because the members are what is balanced... But I expected to find it at the top level of Pool when I first went looking.
Tomorrow's article is about the different algorithms - all of the ones we support and ones with a following that we don't, mostly those used by popular software vendors.
Hope that helps!
Don.
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