Two years or so back, I stumbled on power-of-2 load balancing via Twitter Finagle documentation. Found it pretty interesting. Here is a relevant news.yc discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14640811
And of course, the exponential weighted moving average is a good algorithm too. It is, I believe, used by Elasticsearch. Cloudflare blogged abt using it, as well: https://blog.cloudflare.com/i-wanna-go-fast-load-balancing-d...
Two years or so back, I stumbled on power-of-2 load balancing via Twitter Finagle documentation. Found it pretty interesting. Here is a relevant news.yc discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14640811
And of course, the exponential weighted moving average is a good algorithm too. It is, I believe, used by Elasticsearch. Cloudflare blogged abt using it, as well: https://blog.cloudflare.com/i-wanna-go-fast-load-balancing-d...