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...
Christopher Faulet Christopher Faulet | Dec 20, 2017 | PERFORMANCE, TECH
There are two possible ways to have HAProxy run on multiple CPU cores: By using the multiprocess model, where HAProxy automatically starts a number of separate system processes (method available since HAProxy version 1.1.7) By using the multithreading model, where...
