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...
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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 | Sep 13, 2018 | BASICS, TECH
An HAProxy ACL lets you define custom rules for blocking malicious requests, choosing backends, redirecting to HTTPS and using cached objects. See The Webinar: Introduction to HAProxy ACLs: Building Rules for Dynamically Routing Requests, Redirecting Users and...
Christopher Faulet Christopher Faulet | Dec 20, 2017 | PERFORMANCE, TECH
There are two possible ways to have HAProxy run on multiple CPU cores: By using the multiprocess model, where HAProxy automatically starts a number of separate system processes (method available since HAProxy version 1.1.7) By using the multithreading model, where...
