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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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Don_MacVittie_1
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Apr 01, 2009
Albert,

 

Thanks for commenting! Mentioning RAC was certainly not meant as an exclusive reference, just wanted to mention someone most of my readers would recognize. It probably helps that they're a partner that I've been working with for the last few months, so RAC sprang to mind while writing.

 

I just read the database scale-out document on your site, looks great, though that's of course a first-blush impression.

 

 

Your example leaves me thinking of queue processing... How to ensure that only one server is servicing a DB-based queue... Hmmm. ;-)

 

 

Thanks again,

 

Don.