![Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 3 [Health Checks]](https://cdn.haproxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/image2-2.png)
Baptiste Assmann and Nick Ramirez Baptiste Assmann and Nick Ramirez | Mar 1, 2019 | MICROSERVICES, TECH
Achieving high availability rests on having good health checks. HAProxy as an API gateway gives you several ways to do this. Run your service on multiple servers. Place your servers behind an HAProxy load balancer. Enable health checking to quickly remove unresponsive...
![Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 2 [Authentication]](https://cdn.haproxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/image2-e1548174430466.png)
Baptiste Assmann and Nick Ramirez Baptiste Assmann and Nick Ramirez | Jan 22, 2019 | MICROSERVICES, TECH
HAProxy is a powerful API gateway due to its ability to provide load balancing, rate limiting, observability and other features to your service endpoints. It also integrates with OAuth 2, giving you control over who can access your APIs. In this blog post,...
![Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1 [Introduction]](https://cdn.haproxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/api-gateway-load-balancing-1080x675.png)
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Oct 1, 2018 | MICROSERVICES, TECH
An API gateway handles load balancing, security, rate limiting, monitoring, and other cross-cutting concerns for API services. Read on to learn how HAProxy Enterprise excels as an API gateway. “Danger! Avalanche Area” is a sign you’ll see when you drive through some...
