Standard DNS protocol allows DNS servers to respond with multiple addresses in the replies for simple DNS lookup queries. This, and the way that the order of records is changed in every reply is collectively known as the “Round Robin DNS” technique to load balance across a set of servers.
Though a lot of organizations are [...]

Designing any scalable web architecture would be incomplete without investigating “load balancers”.  There used to be a time when selecting and installing load balancers was an art by itself. Not anymore.
A lot of organizations today, use Apache web servers as a proxy server (and also as a load balancer) for the backend application clusters. Though [...]

A single server, today, can handle an amazing amount of traffic. But sooner or later most organizations figure out that they need more and talk about choosing between horizontal and vertical scaling. If you work for such an organization and also happen to manage networking devices, you might find a couple of loadbalancers on [...]

A few weeks ago the company I work with noticed a weird problem with its CDN (Content Delivery Network) provider. They noticed that HEAD requests were being responded to by the CDN edge nodes using objects in the cache which had already expired. Whats worse is that even after an explicit content expiry notification was [...]