Hiring AWS ALB developers? Then you should know!
How and where is AWS ALB used?
- Microservices Load Balancing: Distribute traffic across multiple microservices
- Containerized Applications: Direct traffic to different containers within an application
- Auto Scaling: Automatically adjust capacity based on traffic fluctuations
- Health Checks: Monitor the health of instances and route traffic accordingly
- WebSockets: Maintain persistent connections for real-time applications
- SSL Offloading: Decrypt SSL/TLS traffic before reaching backend servers
- Path-Based Routing: Direct requests based on URL paths to specific services
- Web Application Firewall: Protect applications from common web exploits
- Cross-Zone Load Balancing: Balance traffic across multiple availability zones
- IPv6 Support: Handle IPv6 traffic in addition to IPv4
Compare Junior, Middle, Senior, and Expert/Team Lead AWS ALB Developer roles
Seniority Name | Years of experience | Responsibilities and activities | Average salary (USD/year) |
---|---|---|---|
Junior | 0-2 years | Responsibilities:
| $60,000 |
Middle | 2-5 years | Responsibilities:
| $80,000 |
Senior | 5-8 years | Responsibilities:
| $100,000 |
Expert/Team Lead | 8+ years | Responsibilities:
| $120,000 |
Quick Facts about AWS ALB.
- Amazon Web Services Application Load Balancer (ALB) was introduced in 2016.
- It is widely used for web applications, microservices, and APIs.
- The entry threshold for using ALB is having basic knowledge of cloud services.
- ALB is often used together with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
- ALB can handle up to millions of requests per second – that’s a lot of clicks!
TOP AWS ALB Related Technologies
- AWS Lambda (Amazon, 2014)
- Terraform (HashiCorp, 2014)
- Docker (Docker Inc., 2013)
- Kubernetes (Google, 2014)
- Node.js (OpenJS Foundation, 2009)
What are top AWS ALB instruments and tools?
- Aviatrix: A cloud networking platform for AWS ALB, released in 2014
- NGINX: A high-performance load balancer for ALB by F5, released in 2004
- HAProxy: An open-source solution for ALB, released in 2001
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