Hello everyone, Recently I’ve started using digital ocean app platform for setting microservice based architecture for my startup but I’m having issues with horizontal scalling. At the time I have: 1 main api that sends TCP commands to microservice 1 microservice, but scaled horizontally to two instances of container They are communicating through TCP, but the problem is that only one instance of microservice is used to do the hard work, the second one never gets any traffic. What can I do with this situation?

App platform - load balancing tcp traffic

Posted on June 11, 2022
API DigitalOcean App Platform Load Balancing Microservices
Asked by MassiveDarkCyanMantaRay

Hello everyone,

Recently I’ve started using digital ocean app platform for setting microservice based architecture for my startup but I’m having issues with horizontal scalling.

At the time I have:

1 main api that sends TCP commands to microservice
1 microservice, but scaled horizontally to two instances of container

They are communicating through TCP, but the problem is that only one instance of microservice is used to do the hard work, the second one never gets any traffic.

What can I do with this situation?

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