The practice of distributing incoming work, such as network requests, across multiple servers so that no single server is overwhelmed, improving both the responsiveness and the fault tolerance of a service.
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Core Principleload balancing is the process of distributing a set of tasks over a set of resources (computing units) with the aim of making their overall processing more efficient. 1 Connections
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1. Load balancing (computing) - Wikipedia
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load balancing is the process of distributing a set of tasks over a set of resources (computing units) with the aim of making their overall processing more efficient.
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