AWS Load Balancers: Quick and Dirty

Which to use when? Answered simply.

Any production application should have load balancing to distribute load. Yet so many developers do not know much about load balancers. Yes i am talking about beyond the systems design interview.

My personal opinion is that aws’ load balancer offerings are not that difficult to understand. However we are going to look at all of them, and break them down Celt style. No BS, just the important info.

This post is going to be for my premium subscribers that keep this publication afloat, and allow me to divulge the secrets that secured me a high paying software architecture job in big finance.

AWS Elastic Load Balancing

Load Balancing Primer

Load balancing (LB) is a technique used in software and technology to distribute incoming network traffic or workload across multiple servers, devices, or resources. The purpose of load balancing is to optimize resource utilization, improve performance, and ensure high availability of applications and services.