https://bala-krishnan.com/tags/concurrency/Recent content in Concurrency on HomeHugo -- gohugo.ioenFri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bala-krishnan.com/posts/25-steer-round-robin/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bala-krishnan.com/posts/25-steer-round-robin/In part 1 I built the smallest possible load balancer: one backend, and Go’s httputil.ReverseProxy doing almost all the work. This time I wanted it to actually balance something, so phase 2 of steer is round robin across several backends. Round robin is the simplest load balancing algorithm there is: request 1 goes to backend A, request 2 to B, request 3 to C, request 4 back to A, and so on.