Client-side load balancing at a million requests per second

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Author: cjbooms

Date: 7/1/2026

Article Summary:
The article describes how the author and their team at Zalando implemented client-side load balancing to improve performance and reduce costs, replacing the shared edge load balancer Skipper with a custom-built load balancer that runs inside the process.