Load Balancing Patterns

Distribute traffic across infrastructure using the appropriate load balancing approach, from simple round-robin to global multi-region failover.

When to Use This Skill

Use load-balancing-patterns when:

• Distributing traffic across multiple application servers
• Implementing high availability and failover
• Routing traffic based on URLs, headers, or geographic location
• Managing session persistence across stateless backends
• Deploying applications to Kubernetes clusters
• Configuring global traffic management across regions
• Implementing zero-downtime deployments (blue-green, canary)
• Selecting between cloud-managed and self-managed load balancers

Core Load Balancing Concepts

Layer 4 vs Layer 7