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...
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...
