> After playing with professional Load Balancers like NGINX I tried creating a simple Load Balancer for fun.
And while nginx[0] certainly can perform in this role, another production quality load balancer is HAProxy[1]. Both can do more than this, of course.
Reinventing solutions "for fun" certainly can be educational and help others learn key concepts, but the author should clearly state what they are doing is not meant to replace production quality solutions.
> After playing with professional Load Balancers like NGINX I tried creating a simple Load Balancer for fun.
And while nginx[0] certainly can perform in this role, another production quality load balancer is HAProxy[1]. Both can do more than this, of course.
Reinventing solutions "for fun" certainly can be educational and help others learn key concepts, but the author should clearly state what they are doing is not meant to replace production quality solutions.
0 - https://www.nginx.com/
1 - https://www.haproxy.com/solutions/load-balancing/