Daniel Skrba Daniel Skrba | Sep 12, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
When talking about managing web applications and the services they provide, the term “API gateway” is often thrown around, but what does it mean? In order to unpack how a gateway functions, we first need to understand what an API is. Application Programming Interface...
Daniel Skrba Daniel Skrba | Sep 2, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
With the right load balancing in place, the demand of increasing web traffic can become manageable, but how do you determine which load balancing algorithm is best suited for your applications? Does the ease of use of static load balancing better suit the services you...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | May 17, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the protocol that defines the language browsers use to communicate with web servers, is stateless, meaning that after you make a web request and a server sends back a response, no memory of that interaction remains. To make anything...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jan 17, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
Load balancing means splitting up network traffic so that you can distribute it evenly across a group of backend servers. For example, if you run two web servers, both hosting a copy of the same website, then you can balance the traffic across them, sending half to...
Senad Caus Senad Caus | May 13, 2021 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, OBSERVABILITY, WEBINARS
This version of HAProxy is one of the largest to date, with updates across the board. Join us as we describe these changes, including: Updated protocol support: WebSockets over HTTP/2, FIX, and MQTT DNS resolution over TCP Built-in OpenTracing New Prometheus metrics...