AWS

Amazon EC2 Explained: Instances, AMIs, EBS, Security Groups, Auto Scaling & Real-World Architecture

Learn Amazon EC2 from the basics to real-world AWS architecture. Understand EC2 instances, instance types, AMIs, key pairs, EBS volumes, security groups, Elastic IPs, user data, IAM roles, Auto Scaling, load balancers, monitoring, and how to deploy ASP.NET Core applications on EC2.

AWS

AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) Explained: Traffic Distribution, Listeners, Target Groups & Routing

Learn AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) from basics to real-world architecture. Understand listeners, target groups, health checks, path-based and host-based routing, security groups, HTTPS, sticky sessions, Auto Scaling, CloudFront integration, and how ALB distributes traffic across ASP.NET Core applications.

System Design - Concepts

Health Checks 🩺 — Detecting Unhealthy Servers

A health check allows a load balancer or service to determine whether a backend instance is healthy enough to receive traffic.

System Design - Concepts

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.

System Design - Concepts

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.