Load balancers
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Most of the system design material puts in load balancer in front of the web servers to balance the load on each web server. However, for a site like facebook or google, the load balancer itself would be overwhelmed by the number of requests. How do you handle that? Do you use a DNS server based load balancing and spread out the traffic across a bunch of load balancers? How many such IP addresses can you use?

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