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Phase 3 · Networking Fundamentals

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Load Balancers

Part of the DevOps Roadmap.

Summary

Distributing incoming traffic across multiple servers to improve availability and handle scale — Layer 4 (transport) and Layer 7 (application) load balancers operate differently and serve different needs.

How to Learn This

  • 1Learn the difference between Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing.
  • 2Explore a cloud provider's load balancer offering (e.g. AWS ALB/NLB) conceptually.
  • 3Understand health checks — how a load balancer knows to stop routing traffic to an unhealthy server.

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