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why do they call it "subsetting" vs "load balancing"? is there difference between the 2 terms?
by tuananh 4y ago
why do they call it "subsetting" vs "load balancing"? is there difference between the 2 terms?
- kccqzy 4y agoSubsetting is literally part of load balancing. It literally means to ask the client to choose a subset of the available servers and load balance among them. At Google's scale of RPC systems, there would be way too many connections if every client connects to every server.
- detaro 4y agoSee the linked chapter from the SRE book: https://sre.google/sre-book/load-balancing-datacenter/#limiting-the-connections-pool-with-subsetting-K7slUv https://sre.google/sre-book/load-balancing-datacenter/#limit...
- tuananh 4y ago> limiting the pool of potential backend tasks with which a client task interacts. so it's like consistent hashing / hash ring?