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title: Concepts · Cloudflare Load Balancing docs
description: Review the following topics to learn more about the basic concepts
  and components involved in Cloudflare Load Balancing.
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Review the following topics to learn more about the basic concepts and components involved in Cloudflare Load Balancing.

* [Load Balancing components](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/load-balancing-components/)
* [Traffic steering](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/traffic-steering/)
* [How endpoints and pools become unhealthy](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/health-details/)
* [Proxy status](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/proxy-modes/)
* [Session affinity](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/session-affinity/)
* [Adaptive routing](https://developers.cloudflare.com/load-balancing/understand-basics/adaptive-routing/)
