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When intelligent routing feels arbitrary and opaque

Our load balancer is supposed to route traffic intelligently but it keeps sending users to servers that are obviously overloaded while other servers sit idle and I cannot figure out what algorithm it thinks it is following.

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What we've seen

Automated systems that promise smart behavior can exhibit patterns that resist human understanding or influence.

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