# Yes, Redis cares about your load balancing strategy

DevFeed: [Yes, Redis cares about your load balancing strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/yes-redis-cares-about-your-load-balancing-strategy-15967.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/yes-redis-cares-about-your-load-balancing-strategy>)

Author: Square Engineering

Published: 2011-07-06T16:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Load Balancing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/load-balancing.md>), [Redis](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/redis.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [load-balancer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/load-balancer.md>), [load-balancing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/load-balancing.md>), [redis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/redis.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [timeout](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/timeout.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how an upstream load-balancing strategy can interact with Redis server-side timeouts and cause intermittent client socket failures. It contrasts round-robin and least-connection strategies, showing how uneven request durations can overload one machine while leaving others underused.

## Source excerpt

Innocuous details like load balancing web servers can produce downstream results in hard to predict ways.