http://www.bala-krishnan.com/tags/load-balancing/Recent content in Load-Balancing on HomeHugo -- gohugo.ioenSat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://www.bala-krishnan.com/posts/24-steer-load-balancer/Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://www.bala-krishnan.com/posts/24-steer-load-balancer/I’ve spent a lot of time on the operating side of load balancers. I’ve read NGINX configs, stared at ALB target group health, and wondered why one pod was getting all the traffic. But I’d never actually written one. So I’ve started building a small HTTP load balancer in Go called steer, in phases, so I can understand each piece before adding the next one. This post is about phase 1, which is the smallest possible version: a load balancer with exactly one backend.