Load Balancers
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Why are load balancers essential in large-scale distributed systems?
Why do Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancers solve different infrastructure problems?
Why is simple Round Robin load balancing insufficient for many production systems?
Why is the Least Connections algorithm often better for long-lived connections?
Why are health checks critical in load balancer architectures?
Why can sticky sessions become problematic in scalable architectures?
Why is SSL termination commonly integrated with load balancers?
Why do globally distributed systems use geo-based load balancing?
Why can load balancers themselves become single points of failure?
What are the major trade-offs when designing load balancing infrastructure?