Willy Tarreau Willy Tarreau | Apr 8, 2021 | BENCHMARKING, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
For the first time, a software load balancer exceeds 2-million RPS on a single Arm instance. A few weeks ago, while I was working on an HAProxy issue related to thread locking contention, I found myself running some tests on a server with an 8-core, 16-thread...
Willy Tarreau Willy Tarreau | Nov 8, 2019 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
Today, HAProxy is the world’s fastest and most widely used software load balancer. It’s responsible for providing high availability, security, and observability to some of the world’s highest trafficked websites. Many Site Reliability Engineers and...
Willy Tarreau Willy Tarreau | Feb 15, 2019 | BENCHMARKING, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, PERFORMANCE
The 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...
Willy Tarreau Willy Tarreau | May 3, 2017 | DEVOPS, NEWS, TECH
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...
Willy Tarreau Willy Tarreau | Apr 12, 2016 | NEWS
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...
