Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jan 29, 2021 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, PERFORMANCE
HAProxy connection limits and queues can help protect your servers and boost throughput when load balancing heavy amounts of traffic. When you use HAProxy as an API gateway in front of your services, it has the ability to protect those servers from traffic spikes. By...
Daniel Corbett Daniel Corbett | Jul 7, 2020 | NEWS, TECH
HAProxy Technologies is excited to announce the release of HAProxy 2.2, featuring a fully dynamic SSL certificate storage, a native response generator, an overhaul to its health checking system, and advanced ring logging with syslog over TCP. Watch our...
Daniel Corbett Daniel Corbett | Dec 4, 2019 | NEWS, TECH
In HAProxy 2.1, you will see significant performance gains in key areas, exciting new features including Dynamic SSL Certificate Updates, FastCGI, and Native Protocol Tracing, and a streamlined codebase. HAProxy 2.1 is a technical release that is focused on improving...
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...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jan 16, 2019 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, MICROSERVICES, PERFORMANCE, TECH
HAProxy provides end-to-end proxying of HTTP/2 traffic. Use HAProxy to route, secure, and observe gRPC traffic over HTTP/2. Read on to learn more. HAProxy 1.9 introduced the Native HTTP Representation (HTX). Not only does this allow you to use HTTP/2 end-to-end, it...
