Nginx is a versatile and high-performance server known for its capabilities in web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, and media streaming. Its asynchronous, event-driven architecture ...

Rackspace’s cloud computing division is offering load-balancing tools to help customers distribute workloads across multiple servers, providing applications with higher availability. Rackspace’s cloud ...

Thanks to the low cost of open-source solutions and the falling prices of hardware, network managers are finding it easier than ever to build out networks and grow the capabilities of the data center.

Savvy network managers are using open-source software to provision new, inexpensive virtual servers, fueling the exponential growth of server clusters, server farms and Web applications. However, just ...

Software clustering technologies have been evolving for the past few years and are currently gaining a lot of momentum for several reasons. These reasons include the benefits of deploying commodity, ...

It’s easy to forget that embedded Linux can’t do everything for all embedded developers. While it is suitable for some applications with many megabytes of memory and powerful processors, there are a ...

In today’s dynamic application landscape, delivering IT infrastructure that’s highly available, performant and secure is paramount for organizations of all sizes. Load balancers help achieve this by ...

So recently I had a discussion with the president of the company that I work for (it's a small company of about 10 full-time employees), and we were discussing our disappointment with the current ...

Facebook wrote the load-balancing software, Katran, because existing load balancers can't handle the size of the social media giant's systems. Google is known to fiercely guard its data center secrets ...

UPDATE: Google has now posted an official incident report to describe why the outage occurred. Here is the key takeaway: Between 8:45 AM PT and 9:13 AM PT, a routine update to Google’s load balancing ...