![Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 3 [Health Checks]](https://cdn.haproxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/image2-2.png)
Baptiste Assmann and Nick Ramirez Baptiste Assmann and Nick Ramirez | Mar 1, 2019 | MICROSERVICES, TECH
Achieving high availability rests on having good health checks. HAProxy as an API gateway gives you several ways to do this. Run your service on multiple servers. Place your servers behind an HAProxy load balancer. Enable health checking to quickly remove unresponsive...
![Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 2 [Authentication]](https://cdn.haproxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/image2-e1548174430466.png)
Baptiste Assmann and Nick Ramirez Baptiste Assmann and Nick Ramirez | Jan 22, 2019 | MICROSERVICES, TECH
HAProxy is a powerful API gateway due to its ability to provide load balancing, rate limiting, observability and other features to your service endpoints. It also integrates with OAuth 2, giving you control over who can access your APIs. In this blog post,...
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...
![Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1 [Introduction]](https://cdn.haproxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/api-gateway-load-balancing-1080x675.png)
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...
