Description:

A Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) must know how to perform load balancing within the data center, both internally and externally. In this course, you’ll learn about load balancing, including various methods for balancing loads in the data center.

You’ll begin by examining what data center load balancing is and its importance to performance, as well as load balancing policies. You’ll then learn how to deal with unhealthy tasks using flow control, and tips and tricks for optimizing load balancing. Next, you’ll examine methods for limiting connection pools with subsetting, and the various load balancing components. Lastly, you’ll learn how to balance loads internally and externally using HTTPS and TCP/UDP, and how to balance loads using SSL and TCP proxy load balancing.

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Duration: 01:04

Description:

Today's distributed systems can consist of hundreds or even thousands of servers, and getting them to work together efficiently is a challenge. Load balancing is a multifaceted concept whose many techniques can help SREs face this challenge.

In this course, you'll explore how front-end load balancing works and its associated techniques, concepts, and capabilities. You'll examine the characteristics of load balancers, their use in application delivery and security, and the use of DNS load balancers. You'll outline strategies for virtual IP load balancing, cloud load balancing, and handling overload. Finally, you'll learn how the Google Front End Service, Andromeda virtualization stack, Maglev network load balancing service, and the Envoy edge and service proxy are used for load balancing-related tasks.

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Duration: 01:07