when to introduce a Load Balancer? theres a few times it makes sense. if you have too much traffic for one server to handle, thats a big one. you need to spread the load, so to speak. and if you want better uptime. if one server goes down, the load balancer can just send traffic to the others. pretty simple, really. also, if you're doing maintenance. you can take servers offline one by one without any downtime for your users. that's super handy. basically, if you care about performance and reliability, its probably time for a load balancer.

Hey everyone, I've been thinking about how to scale applications and what load balancers are really for. We've always just run our services on one machine, and when things get busy, we have to manually scale up. It just feels like we're always playing catch-up. So, when does it actually make sense to set up and deal with a load balancer, whether it's ALB, HAProxy, or Nginx? Is it just about how much traffic we get, or do things like needing high availability, using health checks, or wanting to be ready for more growth down the line matter too? I'd love to hear what has worked for you all and when you decided it was time to make the switch.