by wtarreau | May 3, 2017 | Aloha, HAPEE, HAProxy, optimization, performance
Summary HAProxy Technologies’ R&D has released a patchset to enable seamless reloads of HAProxy without dropping packets in the process. The patchset has already been merged into the HAProxy 1.8 development branch and will soon be backported to HAProxy...
by Tim Hinds | Aug 9, 2017 | architecture, HAPEE, HAProxy
Microservices architectures require highly dynamic application delivery controllers to deliver a multitude of services reliably and with bulletproof security. HAProxy is at the core of application delivery for some of the largest and most complex microservices...
by Tim Hinds | Jul 27, 2017 | HAPEE, HAProxy, ssl
Back in May, HAProxy Senior Systems Engineer Chad Lavoie presented at the OpenStack Summit Boston. Chad presented on using maps in HAProxy to dynamically route requests while securing your site with SSL combined with the use of the Update Module (included in HAProxy...
by Chad Lavoie | Jun 26, 2017 | architecture, HAPEE, HAProxy
Today’s microservices powered architectures require the ability to make frequent application delivery changes in an automated and reliable way. One of HAProxy’s top microservices users performs 20 thousand backend server updates per day per physical...
by Tim Hinds | May 22, 2017 | architecture, HAPEE, HAProxy
Application delivery infrastructure resources are increasingly strained. The new features in modern Application Delivery Controllers along with the demands for SSL to comply with search engine ranking algorithms are major contributors to the problem. It means...
by Chad Lavoie | Mar 24, 2017 | security
The Proxy protocol is a widely used invention of our CTO at HAProxy Technologies, Willy Tarreau, to solve the problem of TCP connection parameters being lost when relaying TCP connections through proxies. Its primary purpose is to chain proxies and reverse-proxies...
by Tim Hinds | Feb 22, 2017 | HAPEE, HAProxy
Do you know what makes HAProxy Enterprise Edition different from HAProxy Community Edition? HAPEE isn’t just HAProxy Community with paid support, and unlike some other products based on open source projects, HAPEE doesn’t strip away any of the capabilities...
by wtarreau | Feb 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
Folks, I’m realizing that it’s been a while since last post. We’ve been quite busy working on tons of cool stuff that you’ll discover soon and time flies fast.. very fast in fact. In the mean time our team was reinforced with Tim Hinds who will...
by wtarreau | Jun 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
How to start with load balancers ? All of us playing with load balancers started the same way. First you prepare a configuration to alternate between two web servers returning different contents, and you verify with your browser that you indeed get a different...
by wtarreau | Apr 12, 2016 | architecture, HAProxy, Uncategorized
HAProxy gets more and more contributors. That’s a good thing. There’s a side effect to this, which is that the maintainer (myself) spends quite some time reviewing submissions. I wanted to have the opportunity to exchange with various contributors to give...
