Load Balancer with health checks

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Intro

Simple round-robin load balancer with health checks implemented with Go, demo.
Source code is available on GitHub.

How to Use

Usage of ./load-balancer:
  -backends string
        Load balanced backends, use commas to separate
  -port int
        Port to serve (default 80)

Running Locally

• Build the load balancer: make build
• Run the balancer and 3 example web-servers: make run
• The balancer will be listening on port 8080

Testing

• Run tests: make test