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Can we trust Google Cloud Load Balancing?

Xebia

With Cloud getting a more prominent place in the digital world and with that Cloud Service Providers (CSP), it triggered the question on how secure our data with Google Cloud actually is when looking at their Cloud Load Balancing offering. During threat modelling, the SSL Load Balancing offerings often come into the picture.

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CodeSOD: The Load Balancer Got Terned Off

The Daily WTF

This mostly works fine for the organization, but one day it started deleting their load balancer off of AWS for no good reason. Ilsa 's organization uses Terraform to handle provisioning their infrastructure. Ilsa investigated, but wasn't exactly sure about why that was happening.

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How to Implement Client-Side Load Balancing With Spring Cloud

Dzone - DevOps

It is common for microservice systems to run more than one instance of each service. It is therefore important to distribute the load between those instances. The component that does this is the load balancer. Spring provides a Spring Cloud Load Balancer library. This is needed to enforce resiliency.

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Transforming workloads: Harnessing AI within VMware environments

CIO

As a result, many IT leaders face a choice: build new infrastructure to create and support AI-powered systems from scratch or find ways to deploy AI while leveraging their current infrastructure investments. Organizations frequently begin by enhancing how users access applications. But this is not necessary to achieve AI enablement.

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One Year of Load Balancing

Algolia

From the beginning at Algolia, we decided not to place any load balancing infrastructure between our users and our search API servers. We made this choice to keep things simple, to remove any potential single point of failure and to avoid the costs of monitoring and maintaining such a system. In the end, this system was simple.

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Cloud Load Balancing- Facilitating Performance & Efficiency of Cloud Resources

RapidValue

Cloud load balancing is the process of distributing workloads and computing resources within a cloud environment. This process is adopted by organizations and enterprises to manage workload demands by providing resources to multiple systems or servers. Its advantages over conventional load balancing of on?premises

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Load Balancer Service Degradation, March 25, 2021

Netlify

On March 25, 2021, between 14:39 UTC and 18:46 UTC we had a significant outage that caused around 5% of our global traffic to stop being served from one of several load balancers and disrupted service for a portion of our customers. At 18:46 UTC we restored all traffic remaining on the Google load balancer. What happened.