Ivan Pepelnjak, writing in ipSpace, received a question from a reader asking about the need for session stickiness and its effect on load-balancer performance. Load balancing is a workaround for the ...

Sessions enable web servers to identify requests coming from an authenticated user via a unique ID number included in every request made to the server. Session persistence makes sure the same web ...

This chapter introduces the reader to firewall load-balancing (FWLB) concepts, technology, and designs. We will talk about motivations behind FWLB solutions, different types of firewalls, and how to ...

The Model Context Protocol's stateful session model — the design that has quietly forced every production MCP deployment to maintain sticky load balancer routing, shared Redis session stores, and ...