Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Oct 26, 2012 | RANDOM TIPS, TECH
Synopsis Compression is a Technic to reduce object size to reduce delivery delay for objects over HTTP protocol. Until now, HAProxy did not include such feature. But the guys at HAProxy Technologies worked hard on it (mainly David Du Colombier and @wlallemand)....
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Sep 19, 2012 | RANDOM TIPS, TECH
Today, almost any ecommerce website uses a load-balancer or an application delivery controller in front of it, in order to improve its availability and reliability. In today’s article, I’ll explain how we can take advantage of ADCs’ layer 7 features...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Jul 29, 2011 | TECH
The tunnel mode looks like the Direct Server Return mode, except that traffic between the load-balancer and the server can be routed. The load-balancer encapsulates the request in an IP tunnel to the server. The server recover the client request from the loadbalancer,...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Jul 29, 2011 | TECH
Direct server return is usually shortened to DSR. In DSR mode, the load-balancer routes packets to the backends without changing anything in it but the destination MAC address. The backends process the requests and answer directly to the clients, without passing...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Jul 22, 2011 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
NAT stands for Network Address Translation. In the NAT mode, the load-balancer will route traffic between user and server by changing destination IP address of the packets. TCP connection overview TCP connection is established between the client and the server. The...
