Load Balancers for System Design Interviews

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In this video, we explain the concept of Load Balancing and how to answer system design interview questions related to it. We'll look at how Load Balancing can help improve your system's availability, scalability, and performance.
Chapters -
00:00 - Why do we need load balancers?
01:06 - How do load balancers work?
02:21 - When should you use a load balancer?
03:26 - Advantages
03:51 - Considerations
04:35 - Outro
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Great video, I am learning a lot here.

[@aswin123ify]

quick question: do we need to use load balancer incase we decided to use Azure function app/Aws lamda or any other serverless offering ?

[@SalesforceRaman]

good explanation

[@tanujkumaragrawal4756]

Multiple load balancer used in order to avoid single point of failuer,, those multiple load balancer will run in active-passive mode ?

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[@haathimmunas1563]

What is different between how a load balancer processes requests and how a server does it?
I mean why is it okay that load balancer can handle high load but a server can't?

[@tryexponent]

Hi Haathim! The load balancer is not another server that can somehow handle a higher load. Rather, a load balancer distributes the incoming requests across multiple servers (horizontal scaling), making sure that the load is distributed evenly. Hope this helps!