Sessions enable web servers to identify requests coming from an authenticated user via a unique ID number included in every request made to the server. Session persistence makes sure the same web ...

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At its simplest, a load balancer is a mechanism that distributes traffic across multiple destination hosts to ensure no one single host catches the full workload. A DNS load balancer, for example, ...

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Way back when virtualization was a new thing, virtual networks were simple connections that linked virtual servers and the occasional networking appliance. Now, however, things are different. Building ...