The State of SSL Stacks
The SSL landscape has shifted dramatically, raising questions about performance, efficiency, and costs. In this paper, we examine OpenSSL 3.x, BoringSSL, LibreSSL, WolfSSL, and AWS-LC with HAProxy.
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Willy Tarreau
Willy released the first version of HAProxy in 2001, welcomed the first contribution in 2004, and became a Linux kernel maintainer in 2006. His focus has always been on the lower layers where efficiency can still be improved after everything was squeezed at visible layers, and on reliability, probably because he hates revisiting complex code.
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HAProxy Forwards Over 2 Million HTTP Requests per Second on a Single Arm-based AWS Graviton2 Instance
First ever software load balancer exceeds 2 million RPS on a single Arm instance! We're near an era where you get the world’s fastest load balancer for free.
The History of HAProxy
HAProxy's origin story is one that has not been told and you may be curious about its roots and what drove it to be what it is today.
Test Driving “Power of Two Random Choices” Load Balancing
The Power of Two Random Choices load-balancing algorithm made us curious. See how it stacks up against other modern-day algorithms available in HAProxy.
Truly Seamless Reloads With HAProxy – No More Hacks!
What users often call a “seamless” or “hitless” reload is a configuration update or a service upgrade performed with no impact on user experience.
HAProxy Technologies Offers Free Hardware Load Balancers to Students/Interns
We're willing to offer a couple of load balancers for free to any student or intern who can describe a project they're working on that involves load balancing.
ALOHA Pocket is Coming…
This is the ALOHA Pocket. Probably the smallest load balancer you have ever seen from any vendor.