HAProxyConf 2022

Over the past few years, the team behind HAProxy has advanced the technology further than ever, setting new world records in terms of performance and scalability. The benchmark achievements have reached such astonishingly large numbers—millions of requests-per-second processed, many parallel threads, 100 Gigabits-per-second throughput, tens-of-thousands… Read more.

The HAProxy team continues to push the boundaries of performance, reliability, and flexibility to give our Community and Enterprise users the very best experience. In this keynote presentation, Director of Engineering Andjelko Iharos introduces our vision for application delivery that is also simple, scalable, and secure.… Read more.

The traffic stack at LinkedIn acts as a bridge between the user device and LinkedIn Services. The aim is to provide a consistent user experience with the best possible latency for a wide spectrum of use cases. It also provides a platform for DDoS and anti-abuse defenses, authentication, security, and other common business logic applicable to all online/… Read more.

Metrics are only as valuable as how they are used. At Roblox, we use metrics to help inform decisions every day. With busy sites with thousands of backends, the HAProxy Prometheus endpoint produces an insane amount of metrics, so we have had to come up with interesting ways to capture relevant data to show the need to process that much information. Duri… Read more.

In this session, learn how HAProxy was leveraged to solve two critical customer problems for telecommunication providers utilizing AWS Wavelength to reduce latency and increase performance for mobile and IoT workloads. First, we will introduce how HAProxy Enterprise can be used in multi-edge environments for Kubernetes deployments. Next, learn how dynam… Read more.

Every second you experience downtime a customer is unhappy, revenue could be lost, and your product’s reputation is at risk. HAProxy, the fastest load balancing software in the industry, has been leveraged by Docker to build a cloud native API gateway system that is scalable, resilient, and highly available. In this presentation, Ryan will demonstrate h… Read more.

At SoundCloud we use HAProxy as our reverse proxy. We are the target of different DoS/DDoS attacks that aim to interrupt our service or abuse it. We have around 70 HAProxy instances and we were looking for a rate-limiting and DDoS prevention solution that collects the information from all the zones and makes a cluster-wide decision on whether the reques… Read more.

This talk explores how Cloudflare uses HAProxy for health checks, load balancing and reading traffic among nodes set up with Postgres streaming replication in hot standby mode. Cloudflare operates multiple Postgres Clusters across four data centers, and all of these clusters are made up of six nodes.… Read more.

This presentation is an overview of the QUIC/HTTP3 protocols and the current status in HAProxy since its introduction in version 2.6.… Read more.

Kubernetes is dominating the container orchestration battlefield. However, few know the evolution of the project so far, especially regarding the networking level. Ingress resources achieved GA status in 2020, but what was happening before, and what's going to be offered in the future?… Read more.

Bedrock migrated its video delivery to the cloud. Very quickly, we needed to add a cache layer to absorb the load. AWS load balancers do not allow for advanced load balancing algorithms, such as consistent hashing, so we decided to use HAProxy. Thanks to the HAProxy Runtime API, we developed a tool in Python that allows us to synchronize the AWS AutoSca… Read more.

Autoscaling is a great tool for any team that is looking for a high uptime system while keeping costs in control. At ClassDojo, we maintain up-to-date server membership in HAProxy using HashiCorp Consul as our service discovery component. Hot reloads in HAProxy allow us to stitch together a seamless mechanism for updating server membership while keeping… Read more.

Traffic fingerprinting is a notorious issue in attack/defense Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions. In those, teams attack each other's machines in a (virtual) network, while checkers provided by the organizers validate availability and functionality of the machines. To ensure a fair contest, it should not be possible for competitors to filter connection… Read more.

Do you have a software development team that always writes absolutely perfect code? Have you managed to avoid using any third-party library or applications in your stack which were later found to have a security vulnerability? Do you have a full-time security team staffed entirely by certified industry experts and researchers to ensure your web applicat… Read more.

SingularCDN provides CDN services for Brazilian customers through a small fleet of dedicated, albeit highly heterogeneous, customized rack servers hosted in a number of geographically-spaced data centers. Each server runs a variety of networking software according to its role, from caching to anti-piracy.… Read more.

In this presentation, Jeremy Lecour explores how to use HAProxy and Varnish to create a web accelerator with load balancing, caching and high-availability capabilities. Jeremy unpacks the architecture and global use cases, and dives into relevant configurations including: TLS, proxy protocol, health checks, and debugging headers.… Read more.

We are perhaps the smallest account in America or in the world for HAProxy, but thanks to HAProxy's with his great technical support, our company managed to overcome the difficult pandemic times.… Read more.

As one of the largest e-commerce companies in China, JD.com manages hundreds of thousands of employee email accounts with an email system powered by Microsoft Exchange on-premises servers. To mitigate increasingly frequent account security threats such as credential stuffing and brute force, we planned to activate Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) durin… Read more.

We released the HAProxy Data Plane API in June 2019. Since then, the API has evolved and with the latest version we bring support to most of the configuration keywords and some other features.… Read more.

Building resilient and highly available infrastructure is of the utmost importance in today’s world, and the principal part of such a design is a load balancer. While HAProxy is easy to set up, it can become tedious to manually include new servers in massive production environments with hundreds of servers, if not thousands. In today's automated world, … Read more.

High availability is an essential requirement for systems responsible for serving information, and on the production level, this requires reliable security protocols. One of these protocols is called the Secure Socket Layer (SSL), providing secure communication in the application layer.… Read more.