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Load balancing distributes workloads across multiple computing resources. Common uses:
- Website performance - Distributes traffic across servers to handle spikes during peak times
- High availability - Redirects traffic to healthy servers if one fails
- Scalability - Adds servers to handle growing demand without overloading infrastructure
- Redundancy - Stores multiple copies of data across servers for backup
- Network optimization - Balances traffic across multiple internet connections
- Geographic distribution - Routes users to nearest data center for lower latency
- Security - Mitigates DDoS attacks by spreading malicious traffic
- Content caching - Stores popular content on load balancers to reduce server load