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Top 6 load balancing algorithms for software engineers

(explained in 2 mins or less):

1 Round robin:

↳ Load balancer forwards the request to the servers in a sequential order

2 Weighted round robin:

↳ Load balancer forwards the request based on server capacity

3 Least connections:

↳ Load balancer forwards the request to the server with the fewest connections

4 IP hash:

↳ Load balancer forwards the request based on client's IP address

5 Least response time:

↳ Load balancer forwards the request to the fastest responding server

6 Adaptive:

↳ Load balancer forwards the request based on server health

What else should make this list?

Jun 14
at
12:54 PM
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