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Load balancers are critical infrastructure components that distribute traffic across multiple servers, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and optimal performance. A properly configured load balancer can handle millions of requests per day while providing seamless failover and zero-downtime deployments. This comprehensive guide explores load balancer architectures, configuration strategies, and best practices for production environments. High availability load balancing architecture Understanding Load Balancing Load balancing distributes incoming network traffic across multiple backend servers to ensure no single server becomes overwhelmed.

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Database replication is the foundation of high availability systems, ensuring data remains accessible even during hardware failures, network outages, or maintenance windows. This comprehensive guide explores replication strategies, failover mechanisms, and best practices for building resilient database architectures. Database replication and high availability Understanding Database Replication Database replication involves maintaining multiple copies of data across different servers or geographic locations. The primary goals are high availability, disaster recovery, and read scalability[1].

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