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Aug 9, 2018 · Operations

How GitHub’s Open‑Source GLB Load Balancer Achieves High‑Performance Scaling

GitHub created the open‑source GitHub Load Balancer (GLB), a bare‑metal load‑balancing solution that uses Rendezvous hashing to smoothly add or remove nodes, offering high availability, DDoS resilience, and scalable performance for massive connection workloads, and is now publicly available on GitHub.