US Patent 10146593 Techniques for decentralized load balancing

Various embodiments are generally directed to decentralized load balancing in a host cluster utilized to coordinate performance of processing tasks in a workload, such as via service agents and/or host instances included in the host cluster, for instance. Some embodiments are particularly directed to a set of service agents on one or more host instances that utilize a shared cache to coordinate among themselves to automatically balance a workload without a centralized controller or a centralized load balancer. In one or more embodiments, a set of service agents may automatically and cooperatively balance a workload among themselves using the shared cache.