CORE CLOUD

Load Balancing & CDN

Distribute traffic across application components to improve resilience and optimize content delivery.

~20 hours

Learning Objectives

Load Balancing ConceptsApplication vs Network Load BalancersContent Delivery Networks (CDN)Caching Strategies

Set up an application load balancer to distribute traffic across two web server instances and verify health check functionality.

📖 Learn by Reading

NGINX Official Documentation

F5, Inc.

Comprehensive documentation for configuring load balancers, reverse proxies, and web servers.

🎥 Learn by Watching

Load Balancing & High Availability Explained

Hussein Nasser • YouTube • 2:00:00

Explains Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancing, CDNs, and architecting highly available systems.