What is a Load Balancer? Strategies, Failover & Differences from Gateways/Proxies

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Learn how load balancers ensure high availability, scalability, and performance by distributing traffic across multiple servers

intermediate Published 26 May 2026
Action Steps
  1. Configure a load balancer using HAProxy to distribute traffic across multiple servers
  2. Implement a failover strategy to ensure high availability
  3. Compare the differences between load balancers, gateways, and proxies
  4. Test a load balancer setup using a tool like NGINX
  5. Apply load balancing strategies to improve system performance
Who Needs to Know This

DevOps and infrastructure teams benefit from understanding load balancers to design and implement scalable systems

Key Insight

💡 Load balancers are crucial for ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance in distributed systems

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💡 Use load balancers to distribute traffic & ensure high availability!

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Learn how load balancers ensure high availability, scalability, and performance by distributing traffic across multiple servers

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