Daniel Skrba Daniel Skrba | Aug 26, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
HAProxy. High availability and a reverse proxy–it’s in the name, but what does it all mean? Before understanding how the two concepts work together in the load balancing space, we need to unpack the basics of high availability and how a reverse proxy functions. In...
HAProxy Technologies HAProxy Technologies | May 23, 2022 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
In this blog post, you’ll learn how the Proxy Protocol preserves a client’s IP address when that client’s connection passes through a proxy. You will also find resources for how to integrate the protocol into your own proxy or web server software....
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...
