DDevang Pandya1d ago · 8 min readSticky Sessions Explained: The Story of Two Waiters (Load Balancer Session Affinity)By Devang Pandya · Cloud Tech by Devang · Cloud • DevOps • AI — Made Simple This post is the full breakdown for the Two Waiters Reel. If you came here after commenting STICKY, welcome! The story in cloudtechbydevang.hashnode.dev
YYashvi Kothari6d ago · 31 min readHow to Host a Web App on Google Cloud Compute Engine (and Scale It)From a single virtual machine to a load-balanced, self-healing web application: a hands-on Google Cloud deployment guide. A website that works is not necessarily a website that's ready to scale. Imagiyashvikothari.hashnode.dev
TTrust BoundaryOct 19 · 10 min readThree bugs made Claude worse, and the checks never saw itOriginally published at trustboundarystudio.com. The video version, with diagrams, is on YouTube. Key facts When: Between August and early September 2025, according to Anthropic's post-mortem of 17 Strustboundarystudio.hashnode.dev
DDevang PandyaOct 19 · 10 min readHow Load Balancers Split Traffic Between Thousands of ServersBy Devang Pandya · Cloud Tech by Devang · Cloud • DevOps • AI — Made Simple When you open a big website, your request almost never goes straight to "the server". It goes to a load balancer first. The cloudtechbydevang.hashnode.dev
Ooctave NkurunzizaOct 18 · 9 min readCanary releases with a weighted load balancer: 10% to v2, proven with 200 requestsTL;DR What you get: a canary release that sends exactly 1 in 10 requests to a new version, a 7-line script that proves the split, and a rollback that takes effect in under a second. Who it's for: anoctave.hashnode.dev
CCiphemic academiaOct 15 · 13 min read Layer 4 vs. Layer 7 Load Balancing: 12 Million Packets a Second and the Cost of Reading Every RequestLayer 4 vs. Layer 7 Load Balancing: 12 Million Packets a Second and the Cost of Reading Every Request Google has used a software load balancer called Maglev since 2008. According to the paper Google pciphemicacademia.hashnode.dev
SShehroz AliOct 4 · 4 min readAchieving 99.99% uptime on single Pod rollout using NEG-based Network Load BalancingIf you’re using an external passthrough Network Load Balancer sitting in front of your Kubernetes cluster, facts are most of the times its not aware of your Service Pod’s container health which resultshehroz.hashnode.dev
JJayesh SojitraOct 3 · 4 min read ALB vs NLB: Which Load Balancer Do You Actually NeedAWS offers multiple load balancer types, and the ALB vs NLB decision trips people up because both "balance load" — but they operate at genuinely different layers of the network stack, which changes whjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev
PPaul AdeoyeOct 2 · 10 min readFrom a Single Server to Cloud Architecture: Why Modern Applications Use Multiple ServicesA simple application can run on a single server. You can install an operating system, deploy the application, connect a database, and make the application available to users. For a small application, paulking.hashnode.dev
SSarmeet SinghSep 29 · 53 min readThe Traffic Cop: Load Balancing, Explained Like You're NewIn the URL shortener post, Step 3 drew a box labeled "Load Balancer" between the users and the API servers and then never said another word about it. It sat there doing the most important job in the dblueprintsofscale.hashnode.dev