GitHub has been at work for the last year to develop a new load balancer, the GitHub Load Balancer (GLB), aimed to be able to scale to billions of connections per day running on commodity hardware.

SA-PLB is a research prototype that studies whether a load balancer can make safer routing decisions when monitoring information may be delayed. The system uses a machine-learning (ML) model to ...

GitHub will release as open source the GitHub Load Balancer (GLB), its internally developed load balancer. GLB was originally built to accommodate GitHub’s need to serve billions of HTTP, Git, and SSH ...