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Balance load and customize content at Layer 7–A tutorial–Part I

TCP is the building block for Layer 7 protocols, such as the HTTP. This chapter will examine the interaction between HTTP and TCP and how client and server communication at the TCP and HTTP layers are ...
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Server load balancing architectures, Part 2: Application-level load balancing

The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.
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Server load balancing architectures, Part 1: Transport-level load balancing

Server farms achieve high scalability and high availability through server load balancing, a technique that makes the server farm appear to clients as a single server. In this two-part article, Gregor ...
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Balance load and customize content at Layer 7–A Tutorial: Part II

This is Part II of a 3-part excerpt from Designing Content Switching Solutions. For the first excerpt, see: See Part I. When the Internet was first designed, the designers had to come up with the ...