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Learn to Load Balance Your High Traffic Sites

Updated on December 9, 2021

Developer Advocate

Learn to Load Balance Your High Traffic Sites

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About the Talk

Is your app highly available? Do you know what happens to your site when your server goes down? Load balancers are a tool that can provide peace of mind and stability to your infrastructure.

What You’ll Learn

  • What is a load balancer
  • When to use a load balancer
  • How to utilize DigitalOcean Load Balancers

This Talk Is Designed For

  • Anyone that wants to create highly available setups
  • Anyone running servers, Kubernetes clusters, or DigitalOcean App Platform apps

Resources

DigitalOcean Load Balancers DigitalOcean Load Balancers are a fully-managed, highly available network load balancing service. Load balancers distribute traffic to groups of Droplets, which decouples the overall health of a backend service from the health of a single server to ensure that your services stay online.

Introduction to DigitalOcean Load Balancers

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Developer Advocate

Mason is currently a Sr. Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean who specializes in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and Python.

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