Load Balancing Digest

I tend to separate out infrastructures into two different beasts:  A site, and a super-site.  Super-sites get tremendous amounts of traffic (1 Gigabit+) and typically are associated with a brand, such as Amazon.com, Google.com, or what have you.
On Slashdot today was a posting about the infrastructure for the super-site Wikipedia.  And what load balancer do [...]

Every skillset has it’s tools.  These are the basics of the vocation, and it’s tough to do your job without them.  I have my own for load balancing, and they’re not what people typically expect.  I’ve mentioned the somewhat unorthodox troubleshooting tools that I use on here before, and now I’ve taken the step of [...]

So, I’ve been working on a Wiki.
I’ve been working on this for a while (over a year, actually), and for a while I’ve been a little frustrated by my progress.  However, I realized I was making a critical mistake: I was waiting to release it until I was finished with it.  Wikis are really never [...]

I came upon an interesting post by Leonard Lin, a developer and (according to Linked In) former Yahoo!-er.  It’s called Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition, and talks about issues with scaling a rapidly expanding application infrastructure.
Among the things I like about the article (including the word Asshattery, which is one of my favorite words, [...]

It’s been about 6 months since the last load balancing/application delivery survey, so I think it’s high time we did another one.
So here’s your chance to contribute to the questions:  What do you want to know?  Put your suggestions in the comments section below, or email them to tony at lbdigest dawt com.

I dare say there are very few web servers left on the Internet. I think you’d have to spend a considerable amount of time trying to actually find one.
Now, given that you’re reading this on a web server, and there are obviously millions of websites, you may be asking yourself what the heck is [...]