topics / traffic-routing
Load Balancer
Round robin, least connections, weighted and IP-hash routing across a pool of backends. Break one on purpose and watch the routing decision change.
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Waiting for traffic…
Algorithm
Round robin: Sends each new request to the next backend in a fixed rotation, looping back to the start once it reaches the end. Simple and even when every backend is roughly equal, blind to how loaded each one actually is.
Traffic
Backends
A health check auto-marks a backend downafter repeated failures — “Kill” simulates an outage happening in the first place.
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