Daniel Skrba Daniel Skrba | Sep 23, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, PERFORMANCE, SECURITY, SSL
Application acceleration is all about improving the responsiveness of a digital service. When clients access web applications, they are expecting near-immediate feedback from servers. Maintaining that level of performance requires ensuring the right resources are...
Daniel Skrba Daniel Skrba | Sep 12, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
When talking about managing web applications and the services they provide, the term “API gateway” is often thrown around, but what does it mean? In order to unpack how a gateway functions, we first need to understand what an API is. Application Programming Interface...
Daniel Skrba Daniel Skrba | Sep 2, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
With the right load balancing in place, the demand of increasing web traffic can become manageable, but how do you determine which load balancing algorithm is best suited for your applications? Does the ease of use of static load balancing better suit the services you...
Daniel Skrba Daniel Skrba | Aug 26, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
HAProxy. High availability and a reverse proxy–it’s in the name, but what does it all mean? Before understanding how the two concepts work together in the load balancing space, we need to unpack the basics of high availability and how a reverse proxy functions. In...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Aug 22, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
If you host dozens of web services that reside at various subdomains, TCP ports, and paths, then migrating them to live under a single address could simplify how clients access them and make your job of managing access easier. It would mean moving from a hodgepodge of...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Aug 3, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
Developing a strategy for collecting application-level logs necessitates stepping back and looking at the big picture. Engineers developing the applications may only see logging at its ground level: the code that writes the event to the log—for example a function that...
