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Load Balancing
Best Load Balancing Software for High-Traffic Web Apps
We spent six weeks pushing a synthetic lab at roughly 250,000 requests per second through ten load balancers, killing backends mid-request to see what held. The result that stuck: the free proxies moved more traffic than the six-figure appliances, and config-reload behavior under load, not throughput, separated the field.
Written by Ivan Rubio