Are you performing load balancing across multiple unreliable service endpoints? If so, this post explains how to best handle this using Oracle Service Bus.
Do you have a service which is overloaded with requests? If so, then you might want to consider introducing a new instance of that service and load balancing across them. This post explains how this can be achieved using Oracle Service Bus.
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