Overview
Hardware isn't becoming that much faster, and Practical Load Balancing helps out by offering a complete survey of network load balancing.
It undergirds most scalability and high performance software today, making the book relevant to everyone—from single server administrators to cloud application developers.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Practical Load Balancing starts by introducing key concepts and the tools you'll need to tackle your load-balancing issues. You'll travel through the IP layers and learn how they can create increased network traffic for you. You'll see how to account for persistence and state, and how you can judge the performance of scheduling algorithms.
You'll then learn how to avoid performance degradation and any risk of the sudden disappearance of a service on a server. If you're concerned with running your load balancer for an entire network, you'll find out how to set up your network topography, and condense each topographical variety into recipes that will serve you in different situations. You'll also learn about individual servers, and load balancers that can perform cookie insertion or improve your SSL throughput.Â
You'll also explore load balancing in the modern context of the cloud. While load balancers need to be configured for high availability once the conditions on the network have been created, modern load balancing has found its way into the cloud, where good balancing is vital for the very functioning of the cloud, and where IPv6 is becoming ever more important.
You can read Practical Load Balancing from end to end or out of sequence, and indeed, if there are individual topics that interest you, you can pick up this book and work through it once you have read the first three chapters.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Practical Load Balancing
Book Subtitle: Ride the Performance Tiger
Authors: Peter Membrey, David Hows, Eelco Plugge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3681-8
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Peter Membrey and Eelco Plugge and David Hows 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-3680-1Published: 30 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-3681-8Published: 13 June 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 272
Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems