The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

Most breaches don’t outsmart your stack; they walk through a permissive load balancer you tuned for speed instead of trust. For a long time, I thought of the load balancer as a performance device. Its ...

In today’s dynamic application landscape, delivering IT infrastructure that’s highly available, performant and secure is paramount for organizations of all sizes. Load balancers help achieve this by ...

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