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Show 226 – What Is A Load Balancer, Anyway?
Category: Technology
Duration: 01:01:37
Publish Date: 2015-03-01 13:56:27
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Eric Flores joins Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks for a discussion about the fundamentals of load balancers, aka “Application Delivery Controllers.” What is a load balancer (ADC)? What’s it good for? How does it work?

The back story of this show is that Eric & Ethan were planning this show many months ago. Then, Eric had a fantastic opportunity to go to work for F5 Networks, who make some of the most popular ADC’s in the industry today. Eric took the gig, and now he’s a New Product Introduction Engineer at F5. Eric settled into the new job, and then we started working on this podcast again.

This was not a sponsored show, but since Eric is working for F5 now, Greg decided to play the curmudgeonly old grump, just to make sure the show didn’t sound like too much like marketing. I mean, hey – Eric works for F5, and I (Ethan) am an F5 fanboy, having working on their kit since 2006. It would be easy to get a bit unbalanced.

All in all, we think we delivered on the goal, which was to introduce load balancer technology on the show. That said, we get into some details too, covering things like TCP proxies, hardware acceleration, SSL offload, and common deployment architectures, like one-armed vs. two-armed.

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