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What's the best cloud load balancer? AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare, or a third-party alternative?
Choosing the right load balancer is about much more than just moving traffic...
Damian Pacuszka
What's the best cloud load balancer? AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare, or a third-party alternative?
Choosing the right load balancer is about much more than just moving traffic...
GSLB
High Availability
Performance
Joe Robinson
Optimizing data storage: Using content-length headers to solve the 'small objects problem'
Small workloads can sometimes create a unique set of problems that are hard to solve...
Storage
How-tos
Performance
Joshua Turnbull
Load balancing Weka is no longer optional — the new normal is 100X faster
Within the space of a few years our customers are demanding increases in performance and capacity — not just 10X, but 100X!..
Storage
Performance
Damian Pacuszka
The complete guide to Layer 4 load balancing: How it works, when to use, and how to configure
Layer 4 load balancing is a quick way of distributing application or network traffic across multiple servers...
Direct Server Return
Performance
Layer 4
Joe Robinson
The ultimate guide to Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB): Benefits, uses, and configurations
Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) enables you to distribute internet or corporate network traffic across servers in multiple locations, anywhere in the world...
GSLB
Storage
High Availability
Joshua Turnbull
Active/active load balancing for N+1 redundancy and > 1Tbps of throughput
I've been repeatedly asked how our load balancers scale. So, I have decided to write down your options for endlessly scalable, high-performance load balancing...
GSLB
High Availability
Performance
Greg Ashwell
How to enable single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) for high-performance load balancing
The single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) interface is an extension to the PCI Express (PCIe) specification. SR-IOV allows a device, such as a network adapter, to separate access to its resources among various PCIe hardware functions...
Performance
Jon Morby
What is network interface bonding and what might you use it for?
There are several ways you can bond a network interface and two primary reasons why you might want to do so...
Performance
High Availability
Richard Halcrow
What transceiver do I need for my load balancer?
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'...
Performance
Kashim Cooper
What's the point of load balancing?
Load balancing? Say what?! Got 2 mins to get your head around the concept? Your time starts....now!..
High Availability
Performance
Application Management
James Loveday
Application Acceleration — and why you DON'T need it
As you know, we get excited about solutions, not semantics, so I'm going to go against the grain here and say 'Application Acceleration' is one of those buzzwords that's about as useful as all that designer water that's out there these days...
Performance
Richard Halcrow
When should you get a hardware replacement? After 3, 5, or 17 years...?
The topic of hardware replacement, trade-in, and upgrade options is rife with opinions, bad habits, and rules of thumb. It gets even more complicated when you consider how your choices are affected by your vendor's randomly changing end-of-life policies...
Performance
High Availability