--- title: Awesome visualizations of load balancing techniques for... description: The way our load balancer is behaving is called "round robin" load balancing. It's one of the simplest forms of load balancing, and works well when your... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/awesome-visualizations-of-load-balancing-techniques-for-distributing-http-requests-across-multiple-s-zyfvywele twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Awesome visualizations of load balancing techniques for distributing HTTP requests across multiple servers. | daily.dev og:description: The way our load balancer is behaving is called "round robin" load balancing. It's one of the simplest forms of load balancing, and works well when your... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/awesome-visualizations-of-load-balancing-techniques-for-distributing-http-requests-across-multiple-s-zyfvywele og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zYFVywelE.png og:image:alt: Awesome visualizations of load balancing techniques for distributing HTTP requests across multiple servers. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Awesome visualizations of load balancing techniques for distributing HTTP requests across multiple servers. **[Syntax](https://daily.dev/sources/syntax)** · [@stolinski](https://daily.dev/stolinski) · 22 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary The way our load balancer is behaving is called "round robin" load balancing. It's one of the simplest forms of load balancing, and works well when your servers are all equally powerful. In the simulation, we vary the power of each server, and we give more powerful servers more requests as we loop through them. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@shrivas** · 0 upvotes > An oldie but a goodie! This is one of my favorite bookmarks. 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