http://simonwillison.net/2007-10-05T23:29:32+00:00Simon Willison2007-10-05T23:29:32+00:002007-10-05T23:29:32+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/5/digital/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.digital-web.com/articles/client_side_load_balancing">Client Side Load Balancing for Web 2.0 Applications</a></strong></p> I recall that early versions of Netscape picked a random server from a hard-coded list each time a user clicked the “What’s New” button, back before server-side scaling techniques were well understood. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/10/05/client-side-load-balancing-web-20-apps-is-voodoo/">SitePoint</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/digitalweb">digitalweb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/leizhu">leizhu</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/load-balancing">load-balancing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/netscape">netscape</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sitepoint">sitepoint</a></p>