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Layer 4 load balancing distributes TCP and UDP connections across servers using addresses and ports, without inspecting the application data inside them.
Layer 7 load balancing distributes traffic by reading application data such as URLs, headers and cookies, routing each request to the right backend.
A load balancer distributes incoming network connections or requests across a pool of servers to improve availability, capacity and response times.
Round robin is a load balancing method that sends each new request or connection to the next server in a fixed rotation, spreading work evenly.
A sticky session is a load balancing method that sends every request from the same client to the same backend server for the length of a…