Load Balancer (LB)

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Last updated: Jun 29, 2023 by Kyle W.
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Load balancing improves the distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources such as computers, a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, or disk drives.

The Load Balancer (LB) sits at the edge of the switching components and responds to all incoming/outgoing traffic.

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