{"id":27251,"date":"2017-01-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3991408"},"modified":"2017-01-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T12:00:00","slug":"what-is-load-balancing-cloudexpo-iot-m2m-api-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/what-is-load-balancing-cloudexpo-iot-m2m-api-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Load Balancing? | @CloudExpo #IoT #M2M #API #Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The entire intent of load balancing is to create a system that virtualizes the \u201cservice\u201d from the physical servers that actually run that service. A more basic definition is to balance the load across a bunch of physical servers and make those servers look like one great big server to the outside world. There are many reasons to do this, but the primary drivers can be summarized as \u201cscalability,\u201d \u201chigh availability,\u201d and \u201cpredictability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3991408\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire intent of load balancing is to create a system that virtualizes the &ldquo;service&rdquo; from the physical servers that actually run that service. A more basic definition is to balance the load across a bunch of physical servers and make those servers look like one great big server to the outside world. There are many reasons to do this, but the primary drivers can be summarized as &ldquo;scalability,&rdquo; &ldquo;high availability,&rdquo; and &ldquo;predictability.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3991408\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27435,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27251\/revisions\/27435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}