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Regarding Mananged Databases. Are the read-only instances load balanced or does the application need to handle them?
- Posted on August 22, 2019
- DigitalOcean
Asked by jbeese
Comparing to Galera cluster. Unable to find anything specific to this in the docs.
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Hello,
I believe that just like Galera and any other cluster, you need either load balancer or logic built into your application in order to load balance the connections to the different replicas.
Hope that this helps. Regards, Bobby