What is Load Balancing?
What does 'Load Balancing' mean?
Work is distributed across multiple consumers or broker nodes so no single one becomes a bottleneck. In a queue this usually means competing consumers each take the next available message, which lets throughput scale by adding workers, and stops a backlog forming behind one slow instance.
List of software with Load Balancing functionality
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