# L4 load balancing

> A Load Balancer forwards TCP instead of reading HTTP: ten times the throughput, a fifth of the hop, and cheaper, with no per-kind routing and no retries.

## Prerequisites

Research these first: [Load balancing algorithms](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research/lb-algorithms.md).

## Engineering terms

- [Load balancer](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/glossary/load-balancer.md)

## Facts

L4 load balancing
- **Track:** Infrastructure
- **Era:** [Seed](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/eras/seed.md)
- **Cost:** 400 400
- **Requires:** [Load balancing algorithms](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research/lb-algorithms.md)

## See also

- [Research tree](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research.md)

Source: https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research/l4-lb