Balancing Act

We have so many servers. What determines which one gets each request from a customer?

That's simple. It's just Round Robin.

Uh, yeah, ok. Send that one to server 142. And the next one to server 334. Oh no, they're coming in so fast!

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When load balancing traffic to a set of servers, the round robin method cycles through a list of servers, sending each subsequent request to the next server in the list. This method is not often used in the northern United States during the winter months because all of the robins have migrated south.

Published Wednesday, 7 January 2026

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