Load Balancing
Algorithms, health checks, session affinity
- 00 Load Balancing — Roadmap HAProxy and nginx. L4 vs L7, health checks, sticky sessions, weighted routing. beginner 3 min →
- 01 L4 vs L7 Load Balancing The difference between routing packets and routing requests — when to use each layer and what each can see. beginner 8 min →
- 02 Load Balancing Algorithms Round-robin, least connections, IP hash, weighted routing — when each algorithm fits and what happens when backends aren't equal. beginner 9 min →
- 03 Health Checks Active vs passive detection, failure thresholds, graceful draining — keeping dead backends out of rotation. beginner 8 min →
- 04 SSL Termination TLS at the load balancer, certificate management, HTTPS between LB and backends, and the trade-offs of offloading vs end-to-end encryption. intermediate 9 min →
- 05 HAProxy in Depth Frontend/backend config, ACLs, the stats page, runtime API, and the patterns that make HAProxy the go-to proxy for demanding deployments. intermediate 11 min →
- 06 Advanced Load Balancing Patterns Blue-green deployments, circuit breakers, global load balancing, and anycast — patterns for deployments that can't go wrong. intermediate 10 min →