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HAProxy 2.0 and Beyond
Daniel CorbettHAProxy Technologies is excited to announce the release of HAProxy 2.0, bringing features critical for cloud-native and containerized environments, while retaining its industry-leading performance and reliability. HAProxy 2.0 adds a powerful set of core features as...
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[Live Webinars] HAProxy 2.0
Senad CausFollowing the road paved by past releases, HAProxy 2.0 brings a powerful set of new core features as well as completely new functionality further improving its support for modern architectures. In a series of three webinars we'll cover: Tuesday, July 2, 2019...
Tracing Requests Through HAProxy with AWS X-Ray
HAProxy TechnologiesHAProxy integrates with AWS X-Ray to give you the best observability across your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, including your load balancer. Read on to learn how. There is a trend to move away from monolithic applications towards microservices. Microservices...
5 Ways to Extend HAProxy with Lua
Adis NezirovićUse Lua to add fetches, converters, actions, services and tasks to HAProxy. Did you know that HAProxy embeds the Lua scripting language, which you can use to add new functionality? HAProxy features an extremely powerful and flexible configuration language and gives...
Exploring the HAProxy Stats Page
Nick RamirezThe HAProxy Stats page provides a near real-time feed of data about the state of your proxied services. In a previous blog post, Introduction to HAProxy Logging, you saw how to harness the power of HAProxy to improve observability into the state of your load...
HAProxy on AWS: Best Practices Part 3
Dinko KorunicIn this blog post, learn to use HAProxy, Keepalived, Terraform and Ansible to set up highly-available load balancing in AWS. In the third part of this series, we are again tackling how to implement a highly available architecture in AWS. In the first article, HAProxy...
HAProxy Exposes a Prometheus Metrics Endpoint
Chad LavoieHAProxy has added native support for Prometheus, allowing you to export metrics directly. Read on to learn more. Metrics are a key aspect of observability, along with logging and tracing. They contain the data that inform you about the state of your systems, which...
Extending HAProxy with the Stream Processing Offload Engine
Christopher FauletThe HAProxy Stream Processing Offload Engine filter enables you to extend HAProxy in any language without modifying its core codebase. Inspired by the possibilities? Read on to learn more. Imagine you're living in the distant future and you're stomping around town in...
IP Masking in HAProxy
Nick RamirezAn HAProxy load balancer allows you to mask IP addresses in order to protect the privacy of your users. Read on to learn more. How do load balancers fit into the larger debate over data privacy and security? It helps to step back and consider how HAProxy adds a layer...
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Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 3 [Health Checks]
Baptiste Assmann and Nick RamirezAchieving high availability rests on having good health checks. HAProxy as an API gateway gives you several ways to do this. Run your service on multiple servers. Place your servers behind an HAProxy load balancer. Enable health checking to quickly remove unresponsive...
Test Driving “Power of Two Random Choices” Load Balancing
Willy TarreauThe Power of Two Random Choices load-balancing algorithm has piqued some curiosity. In this blog post, we see how it stacks up against other modern-day algorithms available in HAProxy. Recently, I was asked twice about my opinion on supporting an algorithm known as...
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