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Published inDec 2023
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ISBN-139781837636112
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Kamil Mrzygłód
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Kamil Mrzygłód is a technical lead and technology advisor, working with multiple companies on designing and implementing Azure-based systems and platforms. He's a former Microsoft Azure Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and certified trainer, who shares his knowledge via various channels, including conference speeches and open source projects and contributions. Kamil lives in Poland with his two cats and one dog, dedicating some of his time to video games, cooking, and traveling.
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Overview of Azure Load Balancer

When building software or computer systems in general, you may face a problem where a single instance of your server is just not enough. You may think about scaling that server up (that is, adding more compute power to it), but every machine has its physical limits. At some point, there’s no more possibility to go up – you need to balance the load across multiple machines.

Once you deploy more machines to handle the load, a new problem arises – you have the infrastructure necessary to receive incoming traffic, but how do you point each connection to the appropriate machine? If you think about it, multiple challenges need to be overcome in such a scenario:

  • Distributing the load evenly
  • Making sure that the user is linked to a single server for the duration of their session (so-called sticky sessions)
  • Redistributing the load in case one of your machines goes down
  • Ensuring the machine responsible for distributing...
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Kamil Mrzygłód

Kamil Mrzygłód is a technical lead and technology advisor, working with multiple companies on designing and implementing Azure-based systems and platforms. He's a former Microsoft Azure Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and certified trainer, who shares his knowledge via various channels, including conference speeches and open source projects and contributions. Kamil lives in Poland with his two cats and one dog, dedicating some of his time to video games, cooking, and traveling.
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