load‐balancing

Top 6 load balancing algorithms for software engineers (explained in 2 mins or less):

1 Round robin:
↳ Load balancer forwards the request to the servers in a sequential order

2 Weighted round robin:
↳ Load balancer forwards the request based on server capacity

3 Least connections:
↳ Load balancer forwards the request to the server with the fewest connections

4 IP hash:
↳ Load balancer forwards the request based on client's IP address

5 Least response time:
↳ Load balancer forwards the request to the fastest responding server

6 Adaptive:
↳ Load balancer forwards the request based on server health