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LoadBalancing

Distributing traffic across multiple instances — round robin, least connections, health checks.

Why we need this / what value this brings

Distributing traffic across multiple instances is what makes horizontal scaling and zero-downtime deploys possible.

When to use this

Once there's more than one backend instance running — not relevant at single-instance scale.

How to use or implement this

Use health checks so the load balancer stops routing to an unhealthy instance automatically.

Research questions

  • Not yet relevant at single-instance scale, but worth knowing before Localz's backend needs a second instance.

Empty folder — drop notes, links, and findings here as you research.

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