The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

Server farms achieve high scalability and high availability through server load balancing, a technique that makes the server farm appear to clients as a single server. In this two-part article, Gregor ...

Most breaches don’t outsmart your stack; they walk through a permissive load balancer you tuned for speed instead of trust. For a long time, I thought of the load balancer as a performance device. Its ...