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