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The design you propose is stateful, and if you read the chapter closely, you can see we spend a lot of effort to make things stateless. The main thing I wanted
by achiang 6y ago
The design you propose is stateful, and if you read the chapter closely, you can see we spend a lot of effort to make things stateless.
The main thing I wanted to respond to in this thread about a single bad server destroying your yearly SLO is described in the first paragraph in the section on load balancing at the virtual IP address.
- 1996 6y agoSorry, I didn't read the document that closely. It was a bit too long. Overall, virtual IPs are still an interesting solution.
- jrockway 6y agoYou might like the actual paper: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/44824.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
- blueblisters 6y agoSorry I couldn't find a clear rationale in the link. Why does Google prefer a stateless load balancer? Is it infeasible to maintain state at that scale?