Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jul 15, 2019 | DEVOPS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
HAProxy 2.0 introduced layer 7 retries, which provides resilience against unreachable nodes, network latency, slow servers, and HTTP errors. HAProxy powers the uptime of organizations with even the largest traffic demands by giving them the flexibility and confidence...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jun 28, 2019 | DEVOPS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
Use the HAProxy Data Plane API to manage your load balancer configuration dynamically using HTTP commands. Sign up for the upcoming HAProxy 2.0 webinars Designing for high availability nearly always means having a strong proxying / load balancing layer. A proxy...
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, which...
Baptiste Assmann and Nick Ramirez Baptiste Assmann and Nick Ramirez | Dec 11, 2018 | DEVOPS, MICROSERVICES
HashiCorp added a service mesh feature to Consul, its service-discovery and distributed storage tool. In this post, you’ll see how HAProxy is the perfect fit as a data plane for this architecture. HAProxy is no stranger to the service mesh scene. Its high...
Moemen Mhedhbi Moemen Mhedhbi | May 31, 2018 | DEVOPS, TECH
Our R&D department published a well-received blog post titled “Truly Seamless Reloads with HAProxy – No More Hacks!”. In it, we explained why some established connections could be dropped during reloads under high utilization, and how the problem has been solved...
Moemen Mhedhbi Moemen Mhedhbi | Nov 28, 2017 | DEVOPS, TECH
In this blog post, you’ll learn how to dynamically configure HAProxy using the Runtime API. Related blog posts: The Four Essential Sections of an HAProxy Configuration The New HAProxy Data Plane API Over the past 15 years, HAProxy has become well known for its...
