Awesome Load Balancing

Projects

• HAProxy
• Nginx
• Envoy
• Katran (FB)
• KgLb (Dropbox)
• GLB (Github)
• Traefik
• Cilium Kubernetes CNI with load-balancing features

Cloud

• Amazon Elastic Load Balancing - Achieve fault tolerance for any application by ensuring scalability, performance, and security.

• Azure Load Balancing - Deliver high availability and network performance to your applications.

• Cloudflare Load Balancing - you can improve application performance and availability by steering traffic away from unhealthy origin servers and dynamically distributing it to the most available and responsive server pools.

• DigitalOcean Load Balancing - Scale your applications and improve availability, security, and performance across your infrastructure in a few clicks.

• Google Load Balancing - High performance, scalable load balancing on Google Cloud Platform.

Collections

• Nginx resources
• Awesome Nginx
• Awesome Nginx Security

Posts

• Unimog - Cloudflare’s edge load balancer
• GLB: GitHub’s open source load balancer
• Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer
• Deterministic Aperture: A distributed, load balancing algorithm (Twitter)
• Examining Load Balancing Algorithms with Envoy
• gRPC Load Balancing
• Cilium Standalone Layer 4 Load Balancer XDP
• Cilium - maglev support in Kubernetes CNI
• Multi-tier load-balancing with Linux

Talks

• Networking @Scale 2018 - Layer 4 Load Balancing at Facebook
• LPC2018 - XDP 1.5 Years In Production. Evolution and Lessons Learned

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