Application Load Balancers now support the configuration of a

## Feature Feature Application Load Balancers now support the configuration of a[traffic duration](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/backend-service#applb-csm-traffic-duration) setting when you add backends to the backend services. You can configure this setting as `SHORT` or `LONG` based on the response time needed by backends to complete HTTP requests. Application Load Balancers also support the use of a new[_in-flight_ balancing mode](https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/load-balancing/docs/backend-service#bmtc-inflight) that lets you configure the load balancer's traffic distribution to supported backends when requests take more than a second to complete. This feature is available in **Preview**.