2 docs tagged with "networking"

Load balancing is about deciding where to send the next request. From weighted round robin to response-time aware routing to consistent hashing at L4 or L7, each strategy has trade-offs in complexity, fairness, and statefulness. This guide walks through the common approaches and key design considerations.

A deep dive into how a network packet travels from the NIC through DMA, the RX ring, interrupt handling, the Linux network stack, and finally to a user-space application.