Software Engineering Architecture Lab

Load Balancing & Horizontal Scaling

Spread traffic across instances and scale without sticky surprises. Lesson 1 of Level 11: Production Architecture.

Level 11 · Production Architecture · Lesson 1 of 5

Spread traffic across instances and scale without sticky surprises.

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  • Load Balancing Algorithms — Send traffic through round robin, least connections, weighted and consistent-hash balancers; make one server slow.

All lessons in Production

  1. Load Balancing & Horizontal Scaling
  2. Reliability: SLOs, Error Budgets & Graceful Degradation
  3. Security Architecture for Backend Engineers
  4. Going Global: Multi-Region & Disaster Recovery
  5. ShopFlow 2030: The Whole Picture