DDevang Pandya·Oct 30Sticky Sessions Explained: The Story of Two Waiters (Load Balancer Session Affinity)By Devang Pandya · Cloud Tech by Devang · Cloud • DevOps • AI — Made Simple This post is the full breakdown for the Two Waiters Reel. If you came here after commenting STICKY, welcome! The story in8 min read·cloudtechbydevang.hashnode.dev
YYashvi Kothari·Oct 25How to Host a Web App on Google Cloud Compute Engine (and Scale It)Learn to deploy and scale a web app on Google Cloud Compute Engine using load balancing, managed instance groups, autoscaling, and Cloud CDN.31 min read·yashvikothari.hashnode.dev
TTrust Boundary·Oct 19Three bugs made Claude worse, and the checks never saw itClaude never went down. Between August and early September 2025, three infrastructure bugs degraded its answers, and Anthropic's evaluations did not catch them.10 min read·trustboundarystudio.hashnode.dev
DDevang Pandya·Oct 19How Load Balancers Split Traffic Between Thousands of ServersBy Devang Pandya · Cloud Tech by Devang · Cloud • DevOps • AI — Made Simple When you open a big website, your request almost never goes straight to "the server". It goes to a load balancer first. The10 min read·cloudtechbydevang.hashnode.dev
Ooctave Nkurunziza·Oct 18Canary releases with a weighted load balancer: 10% to v2, proven with 200 requestsTL;DR What you get: a canary release that sends exactly 1 in 10 requests to a new version, a 7-line script that proves the split, and a rollback that takes effect in under a second. Who it's for: an9 min read·octave.hashnode.dev
CCiphemic academia·Oct 15 Layer 4 vs. Layer 7 Load Balancing: 12 Million Packets a Second and the Cost of Reading Every RequestGoogle's Maglev handles 12M packets/sec without reading a request. One bad firewall rule took Cloudflare down for 27 minutes.13 min read·ciphemicacademia.hashnode.dev
SShehroz Ali·Oct 4Achieving 99.99% uptime on single Pod rollout using NEG-based Network Load BalancingIf you’re using an external passthrough Network Load Balancer sitting in front of your Kubernetes cluster, facts are most of the times its not aware of your Service Pod’s container health which result4 min read·shehroz.hashnode.dev
JJayesh Sojitra·Oct 3 ALB vs NLB: Which Load Balancer Do You Actually Need"Just use an ALB" works for most web apps, but the choice between ALB and NLB isn't about which is "better" — it's about which layer of the network you actually need control at.4 min read·jayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev1E
PPaul Adeoye·Oct 2From a Single Server to Cloud Architecture: Why Modern Applications Use Multiple ServicesLearn how applications evolve from a single server to scalable cloud architectures using multiple app servers, load balancers, databases, and storage.10 min read·paulking.hashnode.dev
SSarmeet Singh·Sep 29The Traffic Cop: Load Balancing, Explained Like You're NewBlueprints of Scale — Core Concepts #1153 min read·blueprintsofscale.hashnode.dev
