How to connect a golang client to multiple alpha servers

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What is the correct way to connect a single go client to multiple alpha instances? In the go documentation, it says: “You can connect to multiple Dgraph alphas to distribute the workload evenly.”, but there is no example of how to properly do that. There are a couple of other threads that raise this issue, but no actual code snippets. I assume you need to create a separate grpc connection and api client, and then pass those to the dgo client, but I can’t seem to get it working as expected. Can someone post a snippet of how they are doing this?}

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The Dgraph Live Loader can connect to multiple Alpha instances using dgo. You can take a look at how it does that:

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That is a big help, thanks!

For anyone looking in the future, note that x.SetupConnection uses grpc.WithTimeout(10*time.Second)), which looks to be deprecated, so instead use DialContext.

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Will that approach, using multiple grpc connections for one client, round robin the mutations? We are seeing one node in a three node alpha cluster with way higher utilization.
Thanks

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If you provide multiple Alpha addresses to dgo, then one will be picked randomly per transaction.