Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Apr 26, 2021 | KUBERNETES, PERFORMANCE
One of the greatest strengths of containers is the ability to spin more of them up quickly. As the volume of traffic to your application increases, you can create more application containers on the fly to handle it, in almost no time at all. Kubernetes ships with...
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...
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...
