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Application Management
Layer 7 load balancing: The complete guide to boosting application performance
Damian Pacuszka
Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer
Storage
Optimizing data storage: Using content-length headers to solve the 'small objects problem'
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
GSLB
The ultimate guide to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): Benefits, uses, and configurations
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
Automation: what's the difference between management and orchestration?
Jeff Gosden
QA Lead
What exactly do we mean by 'automation'? And which tools work best for each scenario?..
Load balancing Moodle's learning application system (LMS)
Victor Moldovan
Technical Support Engineer
Moodle is a great platform for learning, but requires load balancing to facilitate the secure and timely distribution and delivery of that data...
Using Grafana with your Loadbalancer.org appliance
Jeff Gosden
QA Lead
How many times have you looked at the HAProxy report and thought, what on earth is this all about?! What are the busiest times on my Loadbalancer? Which Real Server is busy? How much traffic is going through my VIPs?..
Why is public cloud potentially a bad idea from a programmer's perspective?
Peter Statham
Legacy Developer
Cloud may be a developers best friend, but it can also be a programmer's worst enemy...
What transceiver do I need for my load balancer?
Richard Halcrow
Head of Sales
Transceivers are known by many names: combination transmitters/receivers, optical transceivers, optics, fiber optic transceivers, Gigabit Interface Converters (GBICS), 'that bit you plug into your fiber port'...
Compare Layer 4, 7, and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) techniques
Dave Saunders
Head of Client Engineering
The first question we always ask our customers is: "are you looking for performance, reliability, maintainability — or all three?"..
What is the difference between a hardware and virtual load balancer?
Richard Halcrow
Head of Sales
This is not a blog telling you what appliance you should buy. It's simply a blog explaining the core differences, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each...
How Loadbalancer.org helped this customer migrate seamlessly from Snapt Nova
Joshua Turnbull
Managing Director
Working with this Snapt customer to support them with the urgent migration of all their critical applications...
Using Prometheus with your Loadbalancer.org appliance
Jeff Gosden
QA Lead
With our recent release, you can now use the new Prometheus exporter to export the HAProxy metrics into an existing Prometheus environment...
Oh SNAPT! Where's my load balancer?
Jeff Gosden
QA Lead
I was genuinely shocked and a little sad hearing the news that SNAPT has gone bust. They were a great company, with a nice product and more importantly — nice people...
How my breast cancer treatment highlighted loopholes in patient care and made me fearful for the future of medical imaging
Karen Turnbull
Co-Founder & COO
Why I think NHS hospitals urgently need to modernize their IT architecture if they are to successfully adapt to variable operating models, meet patient demand, and improve treatment options for women with breast cancer...
Cloudian takes object storage performance to the next level —with a tailored load balancer
Malcolm Turnbull
Co-Founder & CEO
Cloudian recently announced its new HyperBalance product, a highly customized OEM version of the Loadbalancer Enterprise ADC...