System design is one of the most fascinating topics in software engineering. What makes system design so interesting is that there are no right or wrong design choices; there are only tradeoffs. For people who are interested in system design and the tradeoffs and design choices used when designing large scale systems, we have collected …
What is caching ? In simpler language, caching is used for speeding up access to certain set of frequently accessed data. A cache is a layer b/w the client and the server. Each request that the client makes to the server, first goes through the cache. This serves two purpose : Cache Hit: If the …
What are the different load balancing algorithms ? There are multiple different types of load balancing algorithms that a Load balancer can use while routing requests from a client. 1 Round Robin Round robin algorithm is the simplest of all the load balancing algorithms. In this algorithm, the requests are routed to a server in …
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What is load balancing ? How does a load balancer work ? Load balancer is a subsystem which acts as a layer b/w your cluster of servers and the clients who are trying to access them. As its name indicates, it is used to balance the load on our application servers as shown in the …
