![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...
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...
![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...
