Lexicon

Single Target Routing

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Performance Core

Record: lexicon:single-target-routing

Canonical: Lexicon

Directing all traffic to one target instead of distributing it, wasting capacity and creating a bottleneck.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Single Monolithic Store and before Single-Primary Read Contention.

Category

  • Scalability / Performance / Optimization

Negated by

  • Load Balancing

Violates

  • Load Balancing

Linked from

  • Scalability / Performance / Optimization