**Why round-robin load balancing causes incidents (and 9 alternatives)** > Roun

**Why round-robin load balancing causes incidents (and 9 alternatives)**

> Round-robin isn’t real load balancing. See 9 algorithms plus AI traffic steering to reduce tail latency, isolate slow AZs, and improve global reliability. TL;DR “Round-robin” is the default , not the decision . The wrong algorithm creates slowdowns that look like app bugs . Most outages are “gray failures” (partial degradation), not total downtime. AI helps by predicting saturation, detecting anomalies, and steering...

**来源信息**
- **来源**：Hacker News：AI 热帖
- **分类**：ai-products
- **发布时间**：2026-06-22 21:03（北京时间）
- **原文**：[打开原文](https://www.azion.com/en/blog/ai-load-balancing-beyond-round-robin)