Reverse proxies and load-balancing appliances and software help keep web traffic flowing as a business grows.

Open source load balancers typically have active communities contributing to the continuous development of the software. This translates into regular updates and quick issue resolution.

GitHub will release as open source the GitHub Load Balancer (GLB), its internally developed load balancer. GLB was originally built to accommodate GitHub’s need to serve billions of HTTP, Git ...

To address that problem, developers have increasingly made use of open source load balancing software from NGINX, especially on public clouds where deploying virtual or physical load balancer ...

Facebook’s latest tool is called Katran, which is a software-based load balancing tool it said has made its backend networking infrastructure far more reliable and scalable.

To address that issue, NGINX today updated NGINX Plus, the commercially supported version of open source load balancing software that is widely used inside and out of public cloud computing ...

NSX Advanced Load Balancer is agnostic to the underlying environment and delivers load balancing and security software in both VMware and non-VMware environments.

The Maglev software-defined load balancer, which runs on commodity Linux servers, has been critical to Google Cloud Platform for eight years, company says.

NSX Advanced Load Balancer is agnostic to the underlying environment and delivers load balancing and security software in both VMware and non- VMware environments.