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Extra LB for the active-active LB's

camelBack

Jan 18, 2024

Did I read it right that if you have multiple LB's due to the active-active setup, you need an LB to distribute traffic to them?

If that's correct, doesn't it move the bottleneck / single-point-of-failure to that new LB? (chicken-egg scenario)

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Design Gurus
Design Gurus2 years ago

The traffic distribution in the active-active setting is handled by DNS Load Balancing or similar technology. See full details at https://www.designgurus.io/answers/detail/what-is-dns-load-balancing...

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