Question

I currently have a number of web services on a single server.
In the future we want to move the load off a single server and split it to other servers.

I am familiar with the concept of scaling out but in our case I want to have different web services on different web servers so that traffic can be routed to the correct web services. So web services that do a lot more intensive work can be dedicated to a specific server.

How would I do this?

Would I need to change my client applications so that the correct webservice is called on the correct web server?

Answer 1

I think the proper pattern to use here would be tho have one server with a dispatcher that will just forward requests to appropriate back-end services. Then if you decide to move one of back-end services to another server, then you can just make configuration change in the dispatcher.

I am sure you can do it programmatically, but I am sure software or hardware (like F5) load balancer have ability to configure it out.