Load Balancing

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Load Balancing

Distributing workloads across multiple computing resources

Part of speech: Noun Category: Information Technology Subcategory: Networking Level: Intermediate

Pronunciation: 🇺🇸 US/loʊd ˈbælənsɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 UK/ləʊd ˈbælənsɪŋ/

Definition

Distributing workloads across multiple computing resources

Examples

Load balancing methods include: round-robin, least connections, IP hash, geographic, health checks, and failover mechanisms for high availability.

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