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...
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...
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Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Oct 1, 2018 | MICROSERVICES, TECH
An API gateway handles load balancing, security, rate limiting, monitoring, and other cross-cutting concerns for API services. Read on to learn how HAProxy Enterprise excels as an API gateway. “Danger! Avalanche Area” is a sign you’ll see when you drive through some...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Apr 5, 2018 | MICROSERVICES, SERVICE DISCOVERY, TECH
In this blog post we will show you a zero-touch method for integrating HAProxy with Consul by using DNS for service discovery available in HAProxy 1.8. HAProxy is the most widely used software load balancer in the world, well known for being extremely fast and...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Sep 27, 2017 | MICROSERVICES, NEWS, SERVICE DISCOVERY, TECH
HAProxy Technologies’ R&D has released a patchset that allows DNS to be utilized for service discovery in HAProxy. The patchset has already been merged into the HAProxy 1.8 development branch and will soon be backported to HAProxy Enterprise 1.7r2. HAProxy is a...
Chad Lavoie Chad Lavoie | Jun 26, 2017 | MICROSERVICES, NEWS, TECH
Today’s microservices powered architectures require the ability to make frequent application delivery changes in an automated and reliable way. One of HAProxy’s top microservices users performs 20 thousand backend server updates per day per physical...
