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RxLoadBalancer is a reactive implementation of a client side load balancer with support for

• Streaming source of host membership
• Pluggable load balancing algorithms (round robin, weighted round robin)
• Pluggable statistics and failure detection
• LoadBalancer partitioning

RxLoadBalancer makes use of RxJava to provide a composable load balancer implementation that through which complex selection, retry and failover policies may be implemented.

What does it do?

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Hello world

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The following is a living list of requirements and design philosophies used to drive the development of this project.

Guidelines/Design Philosophy

• Minimize or eliminate table (map) lookup.
• Abstract various components of the load balancer so they can be customized separately
• Configuration free or minimal configuration
• Policy driven approach to load balancer behaviors
• Design should allow for robust simulations
• Simplified retries - The retry count is left to the caller and uses the Rx retry() function
• Custom mapping function from error response (i.e. not a socket error) to exception: Response -> Throwable

Features to consider

• Pin operations to a specific server : this could be accomplished by performing all operations within the same operation callback
• Max total connections
• Zone stickiness (prefer hosts in same zone as traffic to them is cheaper)
• Prime connections