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Azure Application Gateway v2: Regional Load Balancing Deep Dive
Application Gateway v2 is where the regional Layer 7 load balancer story became production-serious for enterprise workloads. Autoscaling means you don't…
Load Balancing
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Global Load Balancing with Azure Traffic Manager
Traffic Manager keeps showing up in my designs because it's cheap, simple, and works at the layer most failover stories actually need: DNS. The catch is…
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Azure Application Gateway v2: Advanced Load Balancing
App Gateway v1 was a credible Layer 7 load balancer. v2 is the upgrade that makes it the default I reach for in front of internal AKS clusters and App…
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Azure Traffic Manager: Global DNS Load Balancing
Traffic Manager is a deeply unglamorous service that has saved a couple of my projects. It works at the DNS layer—no traffic flows through it, just the…
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Azure Application Gateway: Layer 7 Load Balancing
"Why don't I just use Azure Load Balancer?" is the question I get most often when someone first sees Application Gateway in the architecture diagram. The…