Howdy, >Rules based load balancer? Seems to me like this could need a load >balancer >of its own. Have you stress tested it? I'm not saying it can't be useful >as a smart (policy based) redirector, but as a thin large scale load >balancer the Servlet lifecycle may be a little heavier than necessary. Can >you give an example in which this serves as a better "load balancer" than >other alternatives?
As I said in my original message, it's intended for small to medium, not heavy sites. I wanted something quick, simple, configurable, fast, and pure java. As I also said previously, I'm aware (and in fact use, in other contexts) of several of the alternatives out there from hardware and BigIP to things like the free Balancer software. The use-case that drove me to create my little load-balancer was the following: - We have a web application that among other things presents numerous views of very large data sets. - Over time, as the sets grow larger and the views grow larger, the app needed more RAM. - As it grew even larger, I wanted to split it into multiple servers, each one serving a small number of views, and running on a smaller machine. - Determining which view is to be displayed depends on various request parameters that may be on the URL but may also be POSTed via various forms on our intranet, as well as the user's physical location (which of our buildings they're in, etc.) and his or her security clearances. - This goes far beyond URL-rewriting, the rules are more complex. I needed something that could grab info from the URL, form parameters, lookup the user in our DB to determine privileges, and select the view. Then it would look up in its list of servers which one(s) can serve the selected view, and redirect the request to that server. It's worked extremely well for us. The application handles about 100 users per hours, maybe around 10 concurrent requests at most. Yoav Shapira This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
