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Two-tier load balancing architecture showing an external L7 HTTP load balancer distributing traffic across a web tier (nginx), and an internal L4 TCP load balancer routing to an application tier, backed by a database tier.
Load Balancer Patterns (L4 vs L7)
Two-tier load balancing architecture showing an external L7 HTTP load balancer distributing traffic across a web tier (nginx), and an internal L4 TCP load balancer routing to an application tier, backed by a database tier.
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Two-tier load balancing architecture showing an external L7 HTTP load balancer distributing traffic across a web tier (nginx), and an internal L4 TCP load balancer routing to an application tier, backed by a database tier.
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February 8, 2026
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February 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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