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Discussion on: Explaining Load Balancers

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The best is to do a load testing. Generally what you're looking for is error-free operation with acceptable latency. Use something like Apache jMeter and try increasing the load while adding nodes. Your target is all connections are handled gracefully by the load balancer while keeping the response time from nodes in reasonable values. I'm afraid there's no golden rule here.