Efficient Ops
Jan 8, 2017 · Operations
Why Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) Is Hard: Technical Challenges and Solutions
This article explains what GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing) is, why achieving high availability, low latency, and accurate traffic distribution is difficult due to DNS limitations, caching, and routing constraints, and explores architectural and network‑level techniques such as feedback loops, anycast, and BGP routing to mitigate these challenges.
DNSGSLBanycast
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