tony at lbdigest dot com.
I may even use your question as a post so that it may help others (anonymous, if you so choose).
Occasionally there are posts on the Load Balancing Mailing List that bring up very interesting issues that are worthy of particular note. So, from time to time, I will be highlighting certain posts on the LB Digest.
Recently member Cihan Subasi posted an interesting question on the state of Firewall Load Balancing. The poster [...]
In large to medium sized organizations, those responsible for load balancers typically are in the networking group. However, because of the rather unique function of load balancers, their operation is tied closely to the applications in ways that switches, routers, and even firewalls aren’t.
To fully understand load balancers require skills from career paths that [...]
The first step into the realm of load balancing can be among the most confusing, and that’s specing out the hardware requirements. The same performance characteristics important to load balancers aren’t the same as other networking devices, such as routers and firewalls.
In addition, the metrics that web sites deal with (unique visitors, hits per day) [...]
Load balancing can be a very confusing topic for the uninitiated. Those familiar with servers can find the networking aspect perplexing. Those familiar with the networking aspect can find the server aspect perplexing. And some just find the entire subject intimidating and frustrating.
With that in mind, I’m doing a series of articles under the general [...]
The fact is, it’s been widely reported, and that makes it factesque
-Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show
Back in 2000, I wrote an article in Network World Magazine entitled “Parsing with Precision”. The subject of the article was a condemnation of PC-based load balancers (those based on x86 hardware) and a praise of switch/ASIC-based load balancers. [...]
The Load Balancing Digest went down for a while. I just hadn’t updated any info in a while, and the site kind of atrophied. After the dot com bust, not much happened with load balancers for several years. Then, things got quite exciting again. There are new vendors, new markets, and new [...]
