Daniel Skrba Daniel Skrba | Sep 23, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, PERFORMANCE, SECURITY, SSL
Application acceleration is all about improving the responsiveness of a digital service. When clients access web applications, they are expecting near-immediate feedback from servers. Maintaining that level of performance requires ensuring the right resources are...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Apr 26, 2021 | KUBERNETES, PERFORMANCE
This blog post describes how to implement autoscaling of your application pods using KEDA and the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller. Since it was published, a new feature has been added to the ingress controller that lets you autoscale the number of ingress...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jan 29, 2021 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, PERFORMANCE
HAProxy connection limits and queues can help protect your servers and boost throughput when load balancing heavy amounts of traffic. When you use HAProxy as an API gateway in front of your services, it has the ability to protect those servers from traffic...
Moemen Mhedhbi Moemen Mhedhbi | Jan 21, 2021 | KUBERNETES, PERFORMANCE, SECURITY
We’ve released version 1.5 of the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller. This version unlocks access to the raw HAProxy configuration language for power users to gain more control. You can also enable mutual TLS authentication between the ingress controller and...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Dec 15, 2020 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, PERFORMANCE
Persistent connections allow HAProxy to optimize resource usage, lower latency on both the client and server side, and support connection pooling. HTTP is a layer 7 protocol that’s transmitted over a TCP connection. It works in a client-server model and...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Oct 26, 2020 | MICROSERVICES, PERFORMANCE
HAProxy’s cache helps boost API performance by serving saved messages to your users. The age of rendering most of a web page’s contents on the server and then delivering it as a colossal HTML file is fading into the past. Modern web frameworks like...
