It does make sense since there are powerful widely adopted LBs out there, some are even open source. But if we drop SLB, we would lose tenant-aware load balancing which might come handy at some point. It's not easy to implement tenant aware load-balancing using an external LB with extensions.
Just my thought :) On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Lakmal Warusawithana <lak...@wso2.com> wrote: > Hi Devs, > > Since we have very comprehensive LB extension and capable of adding any > third party LBs, IMO we should not have Stratos specific LB. I'm proposing > to discontinue Stratos LB after 4.1.0 release. > > Thoughts welcome! > > thanks > > -- > Lakmal Warusawithana > Vice President, Apache Stratos > Director - Cloud Architecture; WSO2 Inc. > Mobile : +94714289692 > Blog : http://lakmalsview.blogspot.com/ > > -- Akila Ravihansa Perera Software Engineer, WSO2 Blog: http://ravihansa3000.blogspot.com