Chad Lavoie Chad Lavoie | Dec 11, 2020 | NEWS, TECH
With the second wave of coronavirus sweeping across the nation, experts predict a greater percentage of this year’s holiday shopping to be conducted online than ever before. In fact, a recent National Retail Federation Holiday 2020 survey predicts that “digital...
Chad Lavoie Chad Lavoie | May 6, 2020 | DEVOPS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
In his HAProxyConf 2019 presentation, Chad Lavoie (Director of Support, HAProxy Technologies) describes how to get started and how to build tools that integrate with the API. He demonstrates how to configure a frontend and backend in HAProxy, and then how to modify a...
Chad Lavoie Chad Lavoie | Apr 12, 2019 | DEVOPS, OBSERVABILITY
HAProxy 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,...
Chad Lavoie Chad Lavoie | Nov 28, 2018 | SECURITY, TECH
HAProxy is a high-performance load balancer that provides advanced defense capabilities for detecting and protecting against malicious bot traffic to your website. Combining its unique ACL, map, and stick table systems with its powerful configuration language allows...
Chad Lavoie Chad Lavoie | Nov 9, 2018 | SECURITY, TECH
HAProxy’s high-performance security capabilities are utilized as a key line of defense by many of the world’s top enterprises. Application-layer DDoS attacks are aimed at overwhelming an application with requests or connections, and in this post we will show you how...
