Knowledge Base | Load Balancing/Routing

HAProxy Forwards Over 2 Million HTTP Requests per Second on a Single Arm-based AWS Graviton2 Instance
For the first time, a software load balancer exceeds 2-million RPS on a single Arm instance. A few weeks ago, while I was working on an HAProxy issue related to thread locking contention, I found myself running some tests on a server with an 8-core, 16-thread...

HAProxy Enterprise 2.3 and HAProxy 2.4 Support the Financial Information eXchange Protocol (FIX)
A floor of commotion bustling with people holding phones and shouting out purchase and sell orders, some using hand signals to communicate over the noise. This was a common scene on Wall Street in the 1980s. Nowadays, transactions happen at the push of a button with...
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Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 6 [Security]
HAProxy acts as an API gateway in front of your application servers, providing cross-cutting security. Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1 [Introduction] Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 2 [Authentication] Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 3...
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[Live Webinar] HAProxy Skills Lab: Diagnosing Simple Problems
Webinar date and time:Tuesday, April 13th, 2021US: 12 noon EST, 11 am CDT, 10am MDT, 9am PSTEU: 5pm UTC, 6pm CET If you prefer joining the same webinar in French, register here. Troubleshooting network issues can seem like an arcane art. Operations teams build up...
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Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 5 [Monetization]
Use HAProxy as an API gateway to enable API monetization. Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1 [Introduction] Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 2 [Authentication] Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 3 [Health Checks] Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 4...
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[On-Demand Webinar] Introduction to HAProxy
Want to continue learning? Register for our live webinar: HAProxy Skills Lab: Diagnosing Simple Problems. If you prefer watching this webinar in French click here. Are you new to using the HAProxy? Are you new to load balancing in general? In this webinar, you will...

Protect Servers with HAProxy Connection Limits and Queues
HAProxy connection limits and queues can help protect your servers and boost throughput when load balancing heavy amounts of traffic. When you use HAProxy as an API gateway in front of your services, it has the ability to protect those servers from traffic...

Announcing HAProxy Data Plane API 2.2
The HAProxy Data Plane API 2.2 lays the foundation for first-class service discovery and introduces native support for Consul. It also adds storage and file handling for SSL certificates, Map files, and SPOE configuration files. Watch our on-demand webinar "What’s New...

Circuit Breaking in HAProxy
With HAProxy, you can implement a circuit breaker to protect services from widespread failure. Martin Fowler, who is famous for being one of the Gang of Four authors who wrote Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, hosts a website where...

Route SSH Connections with HAProxy
Route SSH connections through HAProxy using the SSH ProxyCommand feature and SNI. Watch our on-demand webinar in French "How to Route SSH Connections with HAProxy". Did you know that you can proxy SSH connections through HAProxy and route based on hostname? The...