Building Blocks of a Modern Proxy
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 cloud-native...
HAProxy 2.1: Supercharged Performance and a Streamlined Codebase
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...
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[On-Demand Webinar] HAProxy Enterprise 2.0 and Q&A
With robust logs and metrics, easy programmability for automation and scaling, support for fast message serialization, and smart ways to recover from system failures, HAProxy Enterprise 2.0 delivers the features needed for modern, cloud-native applications. In this...
The History of HAProxy
Today, HAProxy is the world's fastest and most widely used software load balancer. It's responsible for providing high availability, security, and observability to some of the world's highest trafficked websites. Many Site Reliability Engineers and Network/Systems...
HAProxy on Docker Swarm: Load Balancing and DNS Service Discovery
Use HAProxy to add routing, load balancing, and DNS service discovery to Docker Swarm. Docker Swarm lets you expand beyond hosting Docker containers on a single machine. It oversees a cluster of servers and manages which to deploy a container to, depending on each...
PacketShield: A Tool for Superior DDoS Protection
PacketShield provides stateful packet filtering and protects your network against DDoS. Packet floods are DDoS attacks in which large numbers of packets are sent to a target with the goal of saturating the target's resources. They can heavily impact the system's...
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[On Demand Webinar] HAProxy 2.0 – Q&A
Modern applications are shifting towards cloud-native architectures and container platforms like Kubernetes. That means that proxies and load balancers must be equipped to manage transient services, new communication protocols, and dynamic methods for discovering...
Introducing HAProxyConf 2019
Announcing our first-ever HAProxy user conference, HAProxyConf 2019! We're excited about the speakers we have lined up, as well as the amazing opportunity to bring together people to share ideas and learn from one another. It's going to be a great and memorable time....
Enabling CORS in HAProxy
The HAProxy Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Lua module streamlines adding CORS to your APIs. What is CORS? Read on to learn more. It doesn't matter whether you're using Angular, React, Vue or simple, vanilla JavaScript. You're guaranteed to need to fetch or...
HAProxy Rate Limiting: Four Examples
Use rate limiting in HAProxy to stop clients from making too many requests and promote fair usage of your services. Rate limiting in HAProxy stops a client from making too many requests during a window of time. You might have a policy that stipulates how many requests...
HAProxy Traffic Mirroring for Real-world Testing
Traffic mirroring makes it possible to stream production traffic to a test or staging environment. Use the HAProxy Traffic Shadowing agent to enable mirroring. The HAProxy Stream Processing Offload Engine (SPOE) lets you stream data to an external agent in real time...
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