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...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jan 22, 2020 | CLOUD, DEVOPS, KUBERNETES
A major outcome of IT/Ops evolution is realizing the importance of a reverse proxy, such as HAProxy, in achieving modern application delivery. This is the first post in a series about HAProxy’s role in building a modern systems architecture that relies on...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Oct 14, 2015 | NEWS, TECH
[ANNOUNCE] HAProxy 1.6.0 released Yesterday, 13th of October, Willy has announced the release of HAProxy 1.6.0, after 16 months of development! First good news is that release cycle goes a bit faster and we aim to carry on making it as fast. A total of 1156 commits...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | May 6, 2015 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
HAProxy’s load-balancing algorithms HAProxy supports many load-balancing algorithms which may be used in many different type of cases. That said, cache servers, which deliver most of the time the static content from your web applications, may require some...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Mar 12, 2015 | LUA, NEWS, TECH
HAProxy 1.6-dev1 Yesterday, Willy has released HAProxy 1.6-dev1: ANNOUNCE HAProxy 1.6-dev1. This version contains many new features and core improvements. Amongst the new features, one is LUA, contributed by Thierry (HAProxy Technologies developer). NOTE: We invite...
