Eddie contains in-built real-time load monitoring routines to track the usage of each Back End Server (shown in black) on your site. This information is passed to a set of designated Front End Servers (shown in blue) which perform load balancing of incoming transactions across all servers supporting particular applications.

The Front End Servers take the load information and adjust the fraction of new client requests sent to each Back End Server so as to ensure that all servers are operating below designated target thresholds (for example, maximum CPU load).

The Front End Servers do not need to know anything about the make, model, or processor speed of the servers at the site. There is no requirement that the servers at your web site are configured the same way. There is no requirement that servers at a site have the same capacity. In fact, there is no requirement that they even run the same operating system!

The capacity of each Back End Server is automatically learned in real-time and adjusts as the mix of client requests changes. Therefore, changes in client request patterns are detected and admission control and balancing adjusted accordingly, without manual intervention. Furthermore, servers are upgraded, absolutely no reconfiguration of Eddie is required.

For server sites distributed over a city, a country, or even the world, Eddie's Enhanced DNS allows the entire site capacity to be usable. The individual sites may have different numbers of servers, different vintages of computer, even different operating systems.

The load information passed to each Front End Server within a site is processed and then summary information of the Front End and Back End Servers on each site is passed to each of Eddie DNS server. The Eddie Enhanced Domain Name Service (DNS) software then dynamically balances client domain name resolution requests across all sites in the distributed server-site, and more specifically, across each Front End within each site. This ensures maximum efficiency of server resources within the distributed site.