Week 5 Posting - Fault Tolerance and Load Balancing

In the world of technology, there are many moving parts that are required to work for other items to work. One such system is a NTP system or network time protocol, this system's singular job is to provide the baseline time for all devices that point to it.  Many companies host their own NTP servers and even larger companies will host NTP servers for non-system services for home devices to point back to, some good examples are Google Time.google.com or Facebook time.facebook.com. In each of these systems, they need to remain secure and be constantly connected to the web, this is hard to do unless there are methods put in place. Additionally, if a single-time server has too many devices requesting the time it may slow the server and throw off the time. In both situations, the use of the principle of failover or load balancing will be a good fix. Instead of all traffic going to a single device, the load can be split between two or more systems that are configured to be almost identical aside from the internal IP and hostnames. With this technology, the website or server time.google.com can now handle more requests and can always stay on by updating each server one at a time. This principle is the perk of failover and load balancing.

 

References

Sheldon, R. (2022, March 3). What is cloud load balancing? SearchCloudComputing. https://www.techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/definition/cloud-load-balancing