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When to Use DNS Load Balancing (and When Not To)

2 points| singhsanjay12 | 3 days ago |singh-sanjay.com

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singhsanjay12|3 days ago

This isn't a critique of DNS load balancing.

DNS works well in certain scenarios (multi-region failover, coarse traffic steering), but I've seen it misapplied in cases where faster failure detection or finer-grained routing was required.

This piece tries to outline where DNS fits well architecturally and where it starts to show limits.