Load Balancing
Master load balancing from fundamentals to global scale with algorithms, health checks, session persistence, SSL termination, and multi-region strategy.
What You Will Learn
Map the control plane and data plane boundaries behind Load Balancing.
Reason about latency, retries, health signals, and failure isolation at service edges.
Choose where policy lives: clients, sidecars, gateways, registries, or centralized controllers.
Balance operational simplicity against flexibility, security, and multi-region behavior.
Key Decisions
Where should Load Balancing sit in the request path or service control plane?
Which state must be strongly consistent, and which state can tolerate eventual propagation?
How do you observe health, policy drift, and partial failure without creating new bottlenecks?
What changes when the platform expands to multi-region or multi-tenant operation?
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