Why client-side load balancers like Ribbon?
问题 Netflix makes use of Ribbon, which is in their terms a "client-side load-balancer". What are the use-cases and advantages of a client-side load-balancer compared to a traditional load-balancer? Is Ribbon, and other Netflix OSS services AWS -specific or can they be used in other contexts? 回答1: As already mentioned by using Ribbon you don't need an additional load balancer. You can also configure the balancing algorithm for each client differently, if you need to. At first I was a bit surprised