Load Balancing Servers, Firewalls, and Caches

By Chandra Kopparapu

From an industry insider--a close look at high-performance, end-to-end switching solutions
Load balancers are fast becoming an indispensable solution for handling the huge traffic demands of the Web. Their ability to solve a multitude of network and server bottlenecks in the Internet age ranges from dramatic improvements in server farm scalability to removing the firewall as a network bottleneck. This book provides a detailed, up-to-date, technical discussion of this fast-growing, multibillion dollar market, covering the full spectrum of topics--from server and firewall load balancing to transparent cache switching to global server load balancing. In the process, the author delivers insight into the way new technologies are deployed in network infrastructure and how they work. Written by an industry expert who hails from a leading Web switch vendor, this book will help network and server administrators improve the scalability, availability, manageability, and security of their servers, firewalls, caches, and Web sites.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Oct 15, 2002
• ISBN: 9780471421283

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Reviews for Load Balancing Servers, Firewalls, and Caches

[pastryville · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

While Chandra did a great job of going over implementation and deployment scenarios of implementing load balancing in just about any environment (from a hardware-agnostic point of view), I was not really impressed with the print quality of the book -- it seemed that the layout was rushed (or it was a print-on-demand book). A great book if you need a primer on load balancing, or if you're looking for a good book to bring a C-Level exec up to speed, this would be the one. If you're looking for a technical guide for load balancing, your better off reading the manuals that come with your F5.