Flask

What is a Load Balancer? A load balancer is a critical component in distributed systems, responsible for distributing incoming requests across multiple servers to ensure high availability, reliability, and optimal performance. Load balancing can generally be categorized into two types: Path-based load balancing: Routes requests to different servers based on the request path. Application-based load balancing: Routes requests based on specific application logic, such as resource utilizaion or round-robin. In this post, we will focus on application-level load balancing and build one from scratch. To simplify the process, we’ll use a Flask web server as the application backend. ...