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This Markdown cheat sheet provides a quick overview of all the Markdown syntax elements. It can’t cover every edge case, so if you need more information about any of these elements, refer to the reference guides for basic syntax and extended syntax.
These are the elements outlined in John Gruber’s original design document. All Markdown applications support these elements.
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These elements extend the basic syntax by adding additional features. Not all Markdown applications support these elements.
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{ "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Smith", "age": 25 }
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The world is flat.
Write the press release
Update the website
Contact the media
Load balancing is vital in enabling our service to scale well, with the increase in the traffic load, as well as stay highly available. Load balancing is facilitated by load balancers, that makes them a key component in the web application architecture.
Load balancers distribute heavy traffic load across the servers running in the cluster based on several different algorithms. This averts the risks of convergence of all the traffic on the service to a single or a few machines in the cluster.
If the entire traffic on the service is converged only to a few machines this will not only overload them resulting in the increase in the latency of the application, killing its performance. But will also eventually bring them down.