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Netflix open sources its middle-tier load balancer, Why?

greenm3.com Sep 5 2012

GigaOm's Barb Darrow reports on Netflix's latest open sourcing of its middle tier load balancer. According to the blog: In AWS cloud, because of its inherent nature, servers come and go. Unlike the traditional load balancers which work with servers with well known IP addresses and host names, in AWS load balancing requires much more sophistication in registering and de-registering servers with the load balancer on the fly. Since AWS does not yet provide a middle tier load balancer, Eureka fills a big gap in that area. The consistency of Netflix open sourcing its infrastructure makes it a pattern. And, to understand the a pattern you need to ask what problems is Netflix trying to solve. Why is Netflix sharing its infrastructure? The process of open sourcing the code gets the developers to clean up their code and document. There is some bad open source code out there ...
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