(AMICAS) Bibliography

Articles

• Microsoft:

  • Join-Idle-Queue: A Novel Load Balancing Algorithm for Dynamically Scalable Web Services;

• Harvard:

  • The Power of Two Random Choices: A Survey of Techniques and Results;

  • The Power of Two Choices in Randomized Load Balancing;

• Bogdan Caprarescu:

  • Decentralized Probabilistic Auto-Scaling for Heterogeneous Systems;

  • Theoretical Analysis and Tuning of Decentralized Probabilistic Auto-Scaling;

  • DEPAS: A Decentralized Probabilistic Algorithm for Auto-Scaling;

• Wikipedia:

  • Backpressure routing;

Links

• HAProxy:

  • Making applications scalable with Load Balancing;

  • HAProxy --- Performance (especially the section on the 3 important factors used to measure a load balancer's performance);

  • HAProxy Architecture Guide;

  • The PROXY protocol -- Versions 1 & 2;

  • HAProxy Configuration Manual (search for the balance keyword);

• Nginx:

  • upstream module (core);

  • sysguard module (3rd party, Tengine);

  • upstream limit module (3rd party);

  • upstream hash module (3rd party);

  • request limit module (3rd party, Tengine);

  • upstream health-check module (1) (3rd party);

  • upstream health-check module (2) (3rd party, Tengine);

  • upstream sticky module (3rd party);

• Amazon Elastic Load Balancer:

  • Amazon Elastic Load Balancer -- Developer Guide;

  • Best Practices in Evaluating Elastic Load Balancing;

• Heroku:

  • Routing Performance Update;

  • Routing and Web Performance on Heroku: a FAQ;

  • HTTP Routing and the Routing Mesh;

  • Heroku Labs: log-runtime-metrics;

• miscellaneous:

  • Framework Benchmarks;

  • Three Latency Anomalies;

  • Timelike: a network simulator;

  • Timelike 2: everything fails all the time;