distributedsystems

This week at SIGCOMM, Inho Choi will present a paper about a fast TCP migration and load balancing system called Capybara, which means it’s time for… another episode of Distributed Systems Explained by ̶C̶a̶t̶s̶ Capybaras!

L4 load balancers are fast, scalable, and widely used in cloud systems: when a new connection arrives, the load balancer picks a server for it. For our purposes, connections are birds and servers are capybaras.

This bird has been assigned to a server.

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