SREcon19 Americas - Keeping the Balance: Internet-Scale Loadbalancing Demystified

Laura Nolan, Slack; Murali Suriar, Google

Can you explain the entire path that an IP packet takes from your users to your binary? What about a web request? Do you understand the tradeoffs that different kinds of load balancing techniques make? If not, this talk is for you.

Load balancing is hard, and it is made up of many disparate technologies. It cuts across network, transport, and application layers. We'll describe different flavours of load balancing (network, naming, application) and how they are composed together by cloud providers and other large Internet companies to provide fast, reliable, multi-region services.

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