Load Balancing
Reviewed by Devopsify Platform Team, · Checked by Devopsify Infrastructure & Reliability group,
Distributing incoming traffic across healthy backends so no single instance decides availability.
Layer 4 balances connections, layer 7 routes by content (path, headers) and enables smarter failover. Health checks make or break it: a balancer that routes to dead backends is failure with extra steps. Pairs with auto-scaling for elastic capacity.