by wtarreau | May 3, 2017 | Aloha, HAPEE, HAProxy, optimization, performance
Summary HAProxy Technologies’ R&D has released a patchset to enable seamless reloads of HAProxy without dropping packets in the process. The patchset has already been merged into the HAProxy 1.8 development branch and will soon be backported to HAProxy...
by wtarreau | Mar 17, 2016 | Aloha, optimization, performance
Well, this project is not really a secret anymore and people start to ask about it, so let me present the beast : This is the ALOHA Pocket. Probably the smallest load balancer you have ever seen from any vendor. It is a full-featured ALOHA with layer 4/7, SSL, VRRP,...
by Nenad Merdanovic | Jul 15, 2015 | benchmark, HAPEE, HAProxy, performance, security, ssl
ECC and RSA certificates and HTTPS To keep this practical, we will not go into theory of ECC or RSA certificates. Let’s just mention that ECC certificates can provide as much security as RSA with much lower key size, meaning much lower computation requirements...
by Baptiste Assmann | Jan 26, 2015 | Aloha, architecture, HAPEE, HAProxy, layer7, optimization, performance
Synopsis Let’s take a web application platform where many HTTP Host header points to. Of course, this platform hosts many backends and HAProxy is used to perform content switching based on the Host header to route HTTP traffic to each backend. HAProxy map...
by Baptiste Assmann | Dec 12, 2012 | HAProxy, optimization, performance
Synopsys At HAProxy Technologies, we do provide professional services around HAPRoxy: this includes HAProxy itself, of course, but as well the underlying OS tuning, advice and recommendation about the architecture and sometimes we can also help customers...
by Baptiste Assmann | Oct 29, 2012 | HAProxy, layer7, performance
Synopsis One of the strength of HAProxy is its logging system. It is very verbose and provides many information. HAProxy HTTP log line is briefly explained in an HAProxy Technologies memo. It’s a must have document when you have to analyze HAProxy‘s log...
