The design you propose is stateful, and if you read the chapter closely, you can see we spend a lot of effort to make things stateless.
The main thing I wanted to respond to in this thread about a single bad server destroying your yearly SLO is described in the first paragraph in the section on load balancing at the virtual IP address.
The main thing I wanted to respond to in this thread about a single bad server destroying your yearly SLO is described in the first paragraph in the section on load balancing at the virtual IP address.