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A load balancer is a device or software that distributes incoming network traffic across multiple servers to ensure no single server becomes overwhelmed. |
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It is important because it improves the availability, reliability, and performance of applications by evenly distributing the load, preventing server overload, and providing failover capabilities in case of server failures. |
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Load balancers are usually used when scaling up RESTful microservices, as their stateless nature, you can set up multiple copies of the same one behind a load balancer and let it distribute the load amongst all copies evenly.
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