127. Which Load Balancer should you use?

An overview of load balancers, explaining how they distribute traffic across multiple servers and provide high availability. We discuss layer 4 and layer 7 load balancers, detailing their pros and cons. We then focus on AWS load balancers, covering network load balancers and application load balancers in depth, including their features, use cases, and pricing models. We conclude by mentioning some alternatives to AWS load balancers.

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🔖 Chapters:

00:00 Introduction and overview of load balancers
02:00 Challenges of managing upgrades and deployments with a single server
05:12 The OSI networking model
08:02 Layer 4 vs layer 7 load balancers
10:54 Pros and cons of layer 7 load balancers
13:05 AWS load balancer types
14:20 Network load balancers overview
16:26 Application load balancer features
20:16 Lambda functions as targets
20:59 Load balancer pricing overview
22:40 Alternatives to AWS load balancers


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