On 15/11/2012 00:48, Tim Bannister wrote:
On 14 Nov 2012, at 22:19, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
I know I am fighting the tide here, but it's really the wrong smarts to put in
the load balancer.
The backend should/can know if it can take more requests. When it can't it
shouldn't and the load balancer shouldn't pass that back to the end-user but
rather just find another available server or hold on to the request until one
becomes available (or some timeout value is met if things are that bad).
This only makes sense for idempotent requests. What about a POST or PUT?
What's the problem? LB will get the request, send OPTIONS * to the
backends to find an available one and only then push the POST/PUT back
to it...
Issac
