Load Balancing

_Over the years I’ve posted a handful of times about load balancing strategies and _when they break, but I don’t think I’ve ever talked about what load balancing is - what its fundamentals are, how it Works. Today I’d like to allow Sam to do so for me viz his ‘splainer on load balancing. In it, he explores the concept and outlines several algorithms, including nifty little visualizations that demonstrate how they work (albeit on a small scale) and what their tradeoffs are.

It is by no means exhaustive (which I consider to be a “feature” - something like this could get really long, really quickly), but for a high-level reasonable- length overview I think it’s most excellent.

…and - bonus! - it comes with a little playground, where you can twiddle a few knobs and see what impact they might have on any of the half-dozen algorithms described in the post.

Noice.