Guy Hulbert wrote:
The point of contention was scalability ... from a human point of view it is really annoying to have to solve a problem twice but from the business pov, outgrowing your load balancer might only be a good thing.
Yes. But most load balancer can only do layer 7 load balancing. Sometimes it is necessary to have very application specific "routing." Also, in general, most hardware load balancers base their algorithms on things such as response time. Sometimes, it is necessary to know the general "health" of the backend servers.
-- Brian Akins Chief Operations Engineer Turner Digital Media Technologies
