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> The details are a little fuzzy, but it sounds like the load balancer is only distributing connections, not requests. That seems wrong. They may be using stic
by adventured 8y ago
> The details are a little fuzzy, but it sounds like the load balancer is only distributing connections, not requests. That seems wrong.
They may be using sticky sessions or affinity in some regard, having the load balancer hold each client connection intentionally to a server. It's not necessarily wrong, entirely depends on what you need to accomplish.
- bastawhiz 8y agoIf they had been using sticky sessions, this should have been a problem before, but to a lesser extent. The same server would have needed to process all of the requests for a single client. You'd still have spikey metrics. This might not be such a problem with one client artificially limited to a single application server. But in practice, it means that individual servers will be overloaded when they are chosen to handle multiple clients concurrently (while other servers are idle).