![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,...
![[On Demand Webinar] Introduction to HAProxy Maps](https://cdn.haproxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Webinar-600x300.png)
Senad Caus Senad Caus | Jan 15, 2019 | TECH, WEBINARS
Your routing logic in HAProxy is simple in the beginning. Then it grows in complexity, perhaps requiring you to choose a different backend based upon the requested URL path, hostname or region. Not long after, you have dozens of similar rules—maybe even hundreds! When...
![[On-Demand Webinar] Introduction to HAProxy ACLs: Building Rules for Dynamically Routing Requests, Redirecting Users and Blocking Malicious Traffic](https://cdn.haproxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Webinar-SVG.svg)
Senad Caus Senad Caus | Nov 6, 2018 | TECH, WEBINARS
As requests stream into your HAProxy Enterprise load balancer, adding rules to route them to the right place, redirect them to other pages, or outright deny them is what puts you in control of your traffic. Access Control Lists (ACLs) give you this power and they are...
Chad Lavoie Chad Lavoie | Oct 17, 2018 | BASICS, TECH
An HAProxy map file stores key-value pairs and is the starting point for some inventive behavior including dynamic rate limiting and blue-green deployments. Dictionaries. Maps. Hashes. Associative arrays. Can you imagine life without these wonderful key-value data...
