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 | 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...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Apr 24, 2012 | BENCHMARKING, TECH
Introduction At HAProxy Technologies, we edit and sell a hardware and virtual load balancer called ALOHA (which stands for Application Layer Optimisation and High-Availability). A few months ago, we managed to make it run on the most common hypervisors available:...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Sep 16, 2011 | BENCHMARKING, TECH
Recently, there has been some attacks against website which aimed to steal user identity. In order to protect their users, major website owners had to find a solution. Unfortunately, we know that sometimes, improving security means downgrading performance. SSL/TLS is...
