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Load balancing solves one of the biggest problems for websites and applications: how to handle requests from large numbers of users. Guaranteeing availability through solutions that optimize consumption improves the user experience and ensures access speed, which is essential for business.

As part of our ongoing commitment to simplify the process of building and running applications at the edge, Azion is pleased to announce changes to Edge Application that will make deployment easier and more flexible. Starting today, we have expanded port access for Edge Application.

IoT devices are finding new uses in many different fields and industries, with the development of automating many aspects of life and business, where we have come up with an array of smart technologies such as factories, agriculture, grid-monitoring, oil & gas, and even the home has not escaped becoming a smart home.

Our commitment to building a safer, more stable internet is a core value here at Azion. As our global dependence on a secure internet continues to increase, it becomes ever more critical that we safeguard against the many vulnerabilities that web infrastructure is riddled with.

A load balancer is similar to a reverse proxy. That means it acts as a proxy for the server in client-server connections, as opposed to a forward proxy, which would act as a proxy for the client. When a client device attempts to connect to a service, a load balancer for that service accepts the connection, and then decides which of its servers to forward the connection to, based on the rules of the load balancing algorithm it was programmed with (more on that in a moment).