Daniel Corbett Daniel Corbett | Jun 15, 2019 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, NEWS, TECH
HAProxy Technologies is excited to announce the release of HAProxy 2.0, bringing features critical for cloud-native and containerized environments, while retaining its industry-leading performance and reliability. HAProxy 2.0 adds a powerful set of core features as...
Christopher Faulet Christopher Faulet | Apr 5, 2019 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
The HAProxy Stream Processing Offload Engine filter enables you to extend HAProxy in any language without modifying its core codebase. Inspired by the possibilities? Read on to learn more. Imagine you’re living in the distant future and you’re stomping...
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...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jan 16, 2019 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, MICROSERVICES, PERFORMANCE, TECH
HAProxy provides end-to-end proxying of HTTP/2 traffic. Use HAProxy to route, secure, and observe gRPC traffic over HTTP/2. Read on to learn more. HAProxy 1.9 introduced the Native HTTP Representation (HTX). Not only does this allow you to use HTTP/2 end-to-end, it...
Nenad Merdanovic Nenad Merdanovic | Jul 15, 2015 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
ECC and RSA certificates and HTTPS To keep this practical, we will not go into theory of ECC or RSA certificates. Let’s just mention that ECC certificates can provide as much security as RSA with much lower key size, meaning much lower computation requirements...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | May 6, 2015 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
HAProxy’s load-balancing algorithms HAProxy supports many load-balancing algorithms which may be used in many different type of cases. That said, cache servers, which deliver most of the time the static content from your web applications, may require some...
