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.
In Notify on Success? Notify on Failure? No — Notify Intelligently, I shared a story about a side project that failed silently for months — a scraper that was supposed to run every 10 minutes, but stopped without a trace. I had notifications set up, but only if the job ran. When it didn’t, I got nothing.
Why classic monitoring logic breaks down, and how to fix it
Explaining the often-missed distinction between semantic and non-semantic partitioning, and how it applies across databases, caches, and even load balancing.
A clear explanation of the Inbox/Outbox pattern, why it exists, and how it powers social feeds, messaging, and event-driven systems.
Without celebrities, we’d never discover concepts like hot shards, read contention, or write amplification. Celebrities are the reason these patterns exist.