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How Zalando Built an In-Process Client-Side Load Balancer for One Million Requests per Second
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Renato Losio
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InfoQ - Architecture & Design - News
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The engineering team at Zalando recently described the design and implementation of an in-process, client-side load balancer for a high-throughput API handling around 1 million requests per second. The result was more …
The engineering team at Zalando recently described the design and implementation of an in-process, client-side load balancer for a high-throughput API handling around 1 million requests per second. The result was more predictable latency, a drop in infrastructure costs, and better visibility into where failures actually originate. By Renato Losio