Christopher Faulet Christopher Faulet | May 8, 2023 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, PERFORMANCE
High levels of web traffic can lead to network congestion, often causing network latency, and in some cases, outages. Traffic shaping is a technique that can help prevent network congestion by controlling how much traffic enters and leaves a network. We debuted...
Christopher Faulet Christopher Faulet | Apr 5, 2019 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
The 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...
Christopher Faulet Christopher Faulet | Dec 20, 2017 | PERFORMANCE, TECH
There are two possible ways to have HAProxy run on multiple CPU cores: By using the multiprocess model, where HAProxy automatically starts a number of separate system processes (method available since HAProxy version 1.1.7) By using the multithreading model, where...