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