Malcolm Turnbull, Co-Founder of Loadbalancer.org, is a foundational authority with 20+ years of uptime industry experience. As the original engineer, his expertise is based on championing open-source load balancing (HAProxy/LVS) to deliver clever, not complex, solutions. He provides deep, technical insight on high-availability, performance optimization, security, and software development philosophies. He also loves to play devil’s advocate in any conversation!
Standard Kernel builds of LVS (Linux Virtual Server) don't have the ability to load balance traffic that is from the local node...
One of the (many) traditional problems with load balancing is the requirement to change your infrastructure in order to implement a hardware load balancer...
Direct Routing aka. Direct Server Return (DSR) aka. N-Path is a great load balancing method. And it is, without doubt, the fastest method possible...
Hardware marketing execs get very excited about the fact that their product can magically scale your application by using ‘amazing Layer 7 technology’ in the load balancer such as cookie inserts and tracking/re-writing...
