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Uses of Load Balancing

Load balancing is a technique used to distribute workloads evenly across multiple computing resources, such as servers, network links, or other devices, in order to optimize resource utilization, minimize response time, and maximize throughput. Here are the five fundamental uses of a Load Balancer.

1. High Availability & Fault Tolerance (The "Survival" Rule)

Hardware fails. Networks flap. Memory leaks happen. If you have one server and it dies, your business is dead

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heybenross

· 3 years ago

The geographic example:

A multinational company has data centers in North America, Europe, and Asia. A load balancer directs users to the nearest data center based on their geographic location, reducing latency and improving the user experience.

In that scenario is there one load balancer? That seems bad because Asia would need to round trip to North America every time.

Or would there be a load balancer in each region?

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