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# \[Load balancing]\(<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load\\_balancing\\_(computing)>)

## Links

* [gobetween](https://github.com/yyyar/gobetween) - Modern & minimalistic load balancer for the Сloud era.
* [GitHub Load Balancer Director (GLB)](https://github.com/github/glb-director) - Set of components that provide a scalable set of stateless Layer 4 load balancer servers capable of line rate packet processing in bare metal datacenter environments, and is used in production to serve all traffic from GitHub's datacenters.
* [Seesaw](https://github.com/google/seesaw) - Linux Virtual Server (LVS) based load balancing platform.
* [bfe](https://github.com/baidu/bfe) - Open-source layer 7 load balancer derived from proprietary Baidu FrontEnd.
* [Adventures in Rust and Load Balancers (2019)](https://medium.com/@bparli/adventures-in-rust-and-load-balancers-73a0bc61a192)
* [Inside the GitHub Load Balancer (2020)](https://www.haproxy.com/user-spotlight-series/inside-the-github-load-balancer/)
* [Traefik Forward Auth](https://github.com/thomseddon/traefik-forward-auth) - Minimal forward authentication service that provides OAuth/SSO login and authentication for the traefik reverse proxy/load balancer.
* [HAProxy](https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy) - Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer. ([Web](http://www.haproxy.org/))
* [High Availability Load Balancers with Maglev (2020)](https://blog.cloudflare.com/high-availability-load-balancers-with-maglev/)
* [Examining Load Balancing Algorithms with Envoy (2020)](https://blog.envoyproxy.io/examining-load-balancing-algorithms-with-envoy-1be643ea121c)
* [Convey](https://github.com/bparli/convey) - Layer 4 load balancer with dynamic configuration loading.
* [Dropbox posts on load balancing](https://twitter.com/copyconstruct/status/1293796261414371330)
* [Awesome Load Balancing](https://github.com/cristaloleg/awesome-load-balancing)
* [Vulcand](https://github.com/vulcand/vulcand) - Programmatic load balancer backed by Etcd.
* [Ask HN: What is an acceptable latency for a web load balancer? (2020)](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24661903)
* [KgLb](https://github.com/dropbox/kglb) - L4 a load balancer built on top of linux ip virtual server (ip\_vs).
* [Tyler McMullen - Load Balancing is Impossible (2016)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpvbOzHUakA)
* [Traefik: canary deployments with weighted load balancing (2020)](https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/traefik-canary-deployments-with-weighted-load-balancing/)
* [Weaver](https://github.com/gojek/weaver) - Layer-7 Load Balancer with Dynamic Sharding Strategies. It is a modern HTTP reverse proxy with advanced features.
* [Making applications scalable with Load Balancing (2006)](https://wtarreau.blogspot.com/2006/11/making-applications-scalable-with-load.html)
* [MetalLB](https://github.com/metallb/metallb) - Load-balancer implementation for bare metal Kubernetes clusters, using standard routing protocols. ([Docs](https://www.metallb.org/))
* [One Year of Load Balancing (2020)](https://www.algolia.com/blog/one-year-load-balancing/) ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25289751))
* [Katran](https://github.com/facebookincubator/katran) - High performance layer 4 load balancer.
* [Traefik Ondemand Plugin](https://github.com/acouvreur/traefik-ondemand-plugin) - Traefik plugin to scale containers on demand.
* [Deterministic Aperture: A distributed, load balancing algorithm (2019)](https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2019/daperture-load-balancer.html) ([HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25596645))