Conference
- Paris, France

Apidays Paris, 2025

Mark your calendars! We’re heading to apidays Paris from December 9 to 11, where the worlds of APIs and AI will converge to shape the future of digital innovation, data protection, and sustainability.

At Europe’s flagship event for API strategy, HAProxy Technologies will showcase how our high-performance application delivery platform empowers secure, scalable, and AI-ready architectures.

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Discover the essential role of a high-performance and reliable API layer in enabling the agility, scalability, and security needed for successful AI adoption. We’ll demonstrate how HAProxy One, the world’s fastest application delivery and security platform, can serve as a powerful foundation for modern API ecosystems.

Expect fresh insights, real-world stories, and live demonstrations revealing what’s possible with HAProxy at the core of your API stack. Come say hi at booth A09 and catch our talk and workshop.


CONFERENCE TALK

Old Tech, New Tricks: Architecting High-Performance A*I Gateways

Everyone is rushing to deploy AI, but few are talking about how to manage the traffic. We stylize it as A*I Gateways for a reason: the blueprint for successful AI infrastructure is already written in the history of API Gateways.

In this session, we stop reinventing the wheel. We will dust off the "decades-old" Load Balancer to demonstrate how proven API patterns are the secret weapon for handling the high-compute, high-latency nature of LLMs.

Key Takeaways:

  • Boost Performance: Slash latency by offloading TLS processing, implementing aggressive caching, and multiplexing connections.

  • Harden Security: Stop threats at the door with pre-authentication and bot blocking before they hit your expensive models.

  • Scale Globally: Deploy a multi-region service mesh that routes traffic intelligently across the globe.

Join us to learn how to transform standard load balancing patterns into a cutting-edge A*I Gateway that solves the "heavy" nature of LLM requests. We will move beyond basic routing to build a Universal Mesh that ensures your AI services are fast, secure, and globally available.

Catch our talk on Wednesday, December 11 at 4:30 PM.

WORKSHOP

Turning Exposed Uris Bulletproof: Securing APIs with HAProxy

Modern APIs are constant targets. While many organizations rush to implement heavy, complex API management platforms, a lighter, faster alternative is already in your stack.

Stop attacks at the edge, not in your application. In this hands-on session, we’ll take a deliberately vulnerable API and lock it down live, demonstrating how to transform HAProxy from a load balancer into a high-performance Security Gateway.

Key Takeaways:

  • Smart Rate Limiting: Stop DoS attacks with context-aware rules based on user tiers, not just IP addresses.

  • Traffic Validation: Reject malformed headers and payloads at the perimeter before they exploit your code.

  • Auth Offloading: Push API key and JWT verification to the gateway using HAProxy ACLs.

Whether you are patching legacy services or architecting new ones, you need a security layer that doesn't add latency. Join us to get a practical blueprint for securing your APIs immediately, maintaining the high performance HAProxy is known for, while stopping threats before they threaten everything.

Join our workshop on December 9 at 2:00 PM.

Ready to explore innovation in the API ecosystem? See you in Paris!