Most teams discover application delivery controllers the hard way, usually after an app falls over during a traffic spike or a security scare exposes a gap. An ADC sits quietly between your users and your servers, and when it is doing its job well, nobody notices. Understanding what it actually handles makes it far easier to see why modern application delivery depends on one. More Than Just a Load Balancer At its core an ADC distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers so no single machine gets overwhelmed. But it has grown well beyond simple round-robin balancing. Today a capable platform...