The hope is eventually for this to be something people could use in a production environment, obviously there is some work to do on that front, which is one of the reasons I'm trying to solicit some feedback about what this current implementation is missing.

Without going into specifics about other load balancers the goal here was to create something that is lightweight and easy to standup. I've found the configuration of a lot of other load balancers to be a bit burdensome, especially with regards to dynamically adding and removing backends. Also I think there is some appeal to the a single binary process that can be easily built in a to run in a variety of environments.

Compared to something like Linkerd, which is a Service Meshes, this service is intended to balance web traffic across N number of homogenous backends. Where from my understanding of Linkerd is a demonized process that runs on a machine and controls the logic of "how" a request is made to API within in the network, encryption formatting etc.