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David Okeyode
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David is the EMEA Azure CTO at Palo Alto Networks. Before that, he was an independent consultant helping companies secure their Azure environments through private expert level trainings and assessments. He has authored two books on Azure security - "Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers" and "Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification and Beyond. He has also authored multiple cloud computing courses for popular platforms like LinkedIn Learning. He holds over 15 cloud certifications and has over a decade of experience in Cybersecurity (consultancy, design, implementation). David is married to a lovely girl who makes the best banana cake in the world. They love travelling the world together!
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Designing and implementing an Azure Load Balancer service

Azure Load Balancer is a pass-through network load balancer that operates at Layer 4 of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. It can distribute network traffic for all Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) protocols. Because it does not modify or analyze received traffic, it is the most performant load-balancing option in Azure.

What is a pass-through network load balancer?

A pass-through network load balancer is a type of load balancer that simply forwards traffic to backend services without modifying or analyzing the content. Unlike other types of load balancers, such as application load balancers, a pass-through network load balancer does not perform any application-level processing, such as SSL termination, header manipulation, or content inspection. Instead, it simply distributes incoming traffic across a pool of backend servers based on configured rules, such as round-robin...

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David Okeyode

David is the EMEA Azure CTO at Palo Alto Networks. Before that, he was an independent consultant helping companies secure their Azure environments through private expert level trainings and assessments. He has authored two books on Azure security - "Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers" and "Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification and Beyond. He has also authored multiple cloud computing courses for popular platforms like LinkedIn Learning. He holds over 15 cloud certifications and has over a decade of experience in Cybersecurity (consultancy, design, implementation). David is married to a lovely girl who makes the best banana cake in the world. They love travelling the world together!
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