The Need for Component Load Balancing

Before going too much further I'm going to present some of the challenges to enterprise applications. This will give you a better understanding of the compelling need for load balancing. Essentially, load balancing provides an application the capability to work within and satisfy the unique requirements of an enterprise.

Scalability

Scalability is the term used to describe the capability of an enterprise system to easily grow in response to ever-increasing demands. Scalability has been the Holy Grail of enterprise developers for many years. Early on, the most common methods of scaling an application were to get bigger and faster machines, or to upgrade machines so that they had more available resources. And ...

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