How LinkedIn modernized its massive traffic stack with HAProxy
Facing rapid growth and changing technical needs, LinkedIn made the strategic decision to redesign its traffic stack around HAProxy.
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Benchmarking
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.
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.
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.
Hypervisors Performance Comparison & Benchmarking (Unbiased)
In this blog post, we summarize the findings of a hypervisors virtual network performance comparison from a virtualized load balancer point of view.
Benchmarking SSL performance
In this blog post, we explain how one can improve SSL/TLS performance by adding some functionality to SSL open-source software with HAProxy.