(I was in the bigger engineering team at Amazon that looked into this between between '04-'08.) After having notable issues with Cisco's hardware load balancer

(I was in the bigger engineering team at Amazon that looked into this between between '04-'08.) After having notable issues with Cisco's hardware load balancers, there was an internal project at Amazon aimed at developing scalable routing solutions. After years of development effort, it turned out that the "better" solutions didn't work well in production, at least not for our workloads. So we went back to million $ hardware load balancers and random routing. I don't know if things changed after I left, but I can tell you it wasn't an easy problem. So I completely buy the robustness and simplicity argument these guys are making.