Load balancers have been a core part of application infrastructure since the mid-1990s. The load balancer, located between the application layer and network infrastructure, ensures high application ...

The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

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HAProxy Technologies, the company behind HAProxy One, the world's fastest application delivery and security platform, today announced its recognition in the G2 Spring 2026 Grid(R) and Index Reports, ...

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This morning at a customer event in New York City, AWS CTO Werner Vogels announced a new load balancing tool, which gives developers much more fine-grained control over how content gets distributed ...

Werner Vogels, Amazon Web Services chief technology officer, in New York this morning. (Photo: Amazon) Werner Vogels, Amazon Web Services’s chief technology officer, this morning announced a new ...

Free load balancers present an excellent opportunity to maximize performance without breaking the budget if you're seeking a solid solution to improve the security and efficiency of your network.

Server farms achieve high scalability and high availability through server load balancing, a technique that makes the server farm appear to clients as a single server. In this two-part article, Gregor ...