Load Balancing & Service Reliability
Load balancing algorithms, health checks, failover strategies, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, and SRE practices for building reliable distributed services.
Load balancing algorithms, health checks, failover strategies, chaos engineering, disaster recovery, and SRE practices for building reliable distributed services.
Comprehensive deep dive into Nginx internals — Master-Worker architecture, epoll/kqueue event loop, thread pools, connection lifecycle, upstream proxying, load balancing, SSL/TLS termination, HTTP/2, caching, rate limiting, and production tuning.
Comprehensive production-grade guide based on the complete System Design Course (APIs, Databases, Caching, CDNs, Load Balancing & Production Infra). Covers single-server limits, SQL vs NoSQL vs Graph databases, horizontal scaling, L4/L7 load balancing, health checks, SPOF mitigation, API protocols, TCP/UDP, REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC, authentication (JWT/OAuth2/OIDC), and multi-tier caching defense-in-depth.