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Layer 4 vs Layer 7 Load Balancing — What's the Difference?
Load balancers can operate at different layers of the network stack. The two important types for system design are Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing.
26 Sep 2026 · 24 views
Load Balancing — How Do We Handle Millions of Requests?
A Load Balancer distributes incoming client requests across multiple servers instead of sending all traffic to a single server.
26 Sep 2026 · 21 views
Connection Pooling — How Applications Handle Thousands of Requests Efficiently
Connection Pooling is a technique where applications maintain and reuse existing connections instead of creating a new connection for every request.
26 Sep 2026 · 22 views
SSE — Server-Sent Events | One-Way Real-Time Communication
Server-Sent Events (SSE) is a technology that allows a server to continuously send updates to a client over a long-lived HTTP connection.
26 Sep 2026 · 25 views
Long Polling — How Can a Server Send Updates Without WebSockets?
Long Polling is a technique where the client sends an HTTP request and the server keeps the request open until new data is available or a timeout occurs.
26 Sep 2026 · 25 views
WebSocket & SignalR — Real-Time Communication
WebSocket is a communication protocol that provides a persistent, two-way communication channel between a client and server.
26 Sep 2026 · 21 views
gRPC — Fast Communication Between Services
gRPC is a high-performance RPC (Remote Procedure Call) framework that allows one application or service to call methods on another service over a network.
26 Sep 2026 · 21 views
REST API — How Do Applications Communicate Over HTTP?
REST (Representational State Transfer) is an architectural style used to design APIs that allow applications to communicate over HTTP.
26 Sep 2026 · 23 views
OSI Model — How Does Network Communication Work?
If SQL Server has to scan millions of rows to find that order, the query can become slow. Database indexes help the database find required rows much more efficiently.
26 Sep 2026 · 24 views