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Xueersi Online School Tech Team

Aug 7, 2020 · Operations

Designing High‑Performance Software L4 Load Balancers: Insights from LVS, Google Maglev, and Facebook Katran

This article examines the limitations of traditional L4 load balancers like LVS and explains how modern software solutions—leveraging DPDK, VPP, XDP/eBPF, and consistent‑hash algorithms such as Google Maglev and Facebook Katran—can achieve high‑throughput, scalable, and highly available L4 load balancing in data‑center environments.