The Spring Cloud ecosystem has been evolving significantly over the years. At first, it was mainly based on the Netflix stack, then it started shifting towards its own solutions. One of the components that has been substituted is Netflix Ribbon. Ribbon is a client-side load balancer and has been replaced by Spring Cloud LoadBalancer.
Spring Cloud LoadBalancer is a more modern and maintainable solution. In this article, you will learn the differences between the two, their designs, and practical examples in Java.