Load balancing

By default Ratel provides a load-balancing mechanism. It is implemented in the client proxies and works in such a way that client will distribute calls to all registered instances of the same service with use of round-robin strategy. When new service providers are started or shut down, the clients update their list of active instances in the round-robin candidates. To put it short

Ratel client always distributes traffic evenly over all active instances of a service