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...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Apr 1, 2015 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
Microsoft Remote Desktop services (RDS) Remote Desktop Services, formerly Terminal Services, is a technology from Microsoft that allows users to access remotely to a session-based desktop, virtual machine-based desktop or applications hosted in a datacenter from their...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Jan 26, 2015 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
Synopsis Let’s take a web application platform where many HTTP Host header points to. Of course, this platform hosts many backends and HAProxy is used to perform content switching based on the Host header to route HTTP traffic to each backend. HAProxy map...
