03-load_balancing

03-Load_balancing

Description

This is a simple load balancer app who balance each request to the server running according to algorithm you choice least-connections or round-robin. It is implemented using the http-proxy and http module of Node.

How to run

1. Clone the repository
2. Navigate to the 02-web_server directory
3. Run yarn install or npm install
4. In a file app.ts change the loadBalancerAlgorithm to least-connections or round-robin
5. Run npx tsc *.ts to compile the typescript files to javascript
6. Open 3 terminal windows and run node server.js, node app.js & ./test_load_balancing in each of them

How to use

1. Lanch the test script ./test_load_balancing in a terminal

Source

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