HAProxyConf 2025
Featured Presentations
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Kelsey Hightower
A leading technologist and contributor to cloud computing, open-source software, and Kubernetes, Kelsey will kick off two days of expert-led sessions from across the open-source and enterprise landscapes.
EXPERT SPEAKER
Hussein Nasser
With 20+ years of backend engineering experience and a passion for sharing knowledge, Hussein regularly tackles complex software challenges and uncovers key insights as a result.
Building bridges across clouds: the PayPal approach to unified business communication
Enterprise expansion through acquisitions presents significant networking challenges, including IP address overlaps, increased latency, and disparities in cloud vendor feature sets. At PayPal, we addressed these complexities with Project Meridian, leveraging HAProxy Enterprise and HAProxy Fusion as …
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Kalai Manoharan
MTS 2 Network Engineering
Sidd Mukkamala
Sr. MTS, Network Engineering
Dynamic HAProxy at Scale: Roblox's infrastructure evolution
Roblox supports nearly 100 million daily active users, which creates massive challenges when migrating services at scale. This presentation walks through our journey from bare metal to orchestrated HAProxy Enterprise deployments, highlighting the initial transition challenges and how we resolved the…
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Ben Meidell
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
Chris Jones
Software Engineer, Traffic Team
The Fundamentals
In a world of rapid change and growing complexity, it's easy to lose sight of the foundational principles that underpin robust systems. Kelsey Hightower's keynote cuts through the hype, challenging conventional wisdom around modern distributed architectures and reminding us why a deep understanding …
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Kelsey Hightower
Automation of rainbow deployments and service mesh with HAProxy
At Clover, we leverage rainbow deployment strategy to expose multiple versions of an application to different customers based on traffic weights as well as via customer pinning. This critical routing logic is implemented using HAProxy's "Map" feature.…
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Anirudh Ramesh
Senior SRE
Dilpreet Singh
Senior Cloud Engineer
Securing global WAF coverage with HAProxy
This presentation will detail Infobip's journey to securing their core API and messaging business with HAProxy Enterprise WAF. Faced with the challenge of deploying a Web Application Firewall (WAF) across numerous data centers while maintaining low latency, Infobip explored various options, includin…
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Juraj Ban
Principal Security Architect
Boris Deković
Security Engineer
Automating HAProxy to optimize Criteo’s dynamic autoscaling infrastructure
Criteo's L7 load balancing is powered entirely by HAProxy. This presentation details how Criteo automated and optimized their load balancing infrastructure using HAProxy and Consul – resulting in an enhanced user experience.…
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Basha Mougamadou
SRE in Network LB team
30,000 updates per day: dynamic Kubernetes routing with HAProxy Map API at PayPal
As Kubernetes adoption accelerates, organizations face growing complexity in managing service discovery, traffic routing, and dynamic scaling. This presentation explores PayPal's journey from using open-source HAProxy to implementing HAProxy Enterprise and HAProxy Fusion Control Plane to address the…
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Srivignessh Pacham
Sr Software Engineer
Anatomy of a request: beyond backend processing
When we send a request to a backend, we focus on the processing aspect, which is really just the last step. There is so much more happening before a request is ready to be processed. In this talk, I go into the anatomy of the request and break it into six different steps: Accept, Read, Decrypt, Pars…
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Hussein Nasser
Principal Engineer
Fortifying AI deployments with HAProxy: bridging security and performance
AI systems face unique security threats that traditional protections weren't designed to handle. This session shows how HAProxy load balancers can secure AI deployments against emerging threats like prompt injection and data poisoning without sacrificing performance.…
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Jeff Regan
Senior Engineer
Subsecond datacenter failover: revolutionizing high-availability with HAProxy
As the biggest truck parts remanufacturer in the US, Weller Truck Parts boosted our uptime and saved money using HAProxy Enterprise with HAProxy Fusion Control Plane. Our story shows how a smaller company can get world-class results with limited resources. We'll walk through our vendor-agnostic eval…
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Austin Ellsworth
Infrastructure Manager
Optimizing HAProxy at scale: Liftoff's path to efficiency, performance, and cost savings
HAProxy is the world's fastest and most widely used software load balancer. Liftoff leverages HAProxy to simplify, scale, and secure modern applications, APIs, and AI services. This presentation will share Liftoff's HAProxy implementation, including migration from a third party vendor.…
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Tommy Nguyen
Senior Engineering Manager
Ken Chin
Senior Software Engineer
When explosive growth hits your business and load balancers
Since its creation in 2017, the AI machine translation company DeepL has grown explosively, and so have the challenges of managing external traffic: tens of thousands of requests per second, abuse of the free tier service, on-premises scaling issues, and complicated load balancing configuration.…
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Philipp Hossner
Senior Staff Engineer
Automated migration to HAProxy One: a platform-agnostic approach
Dartmouth College built a unique Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS) platform that lets us migrate from VMware NSX-ALB to HAProxy Enterprise with HAProxy Fusion Control Plane, without disrupting our users or changing our workflows. Leveraging 1100+ existing structured load balancer configuration mani…
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Curt Barthel
Infrastructure Engineer
Kevin Doerr
Infrastructure Engineer
TLS and HAProxy 3.2
This session covers the evolution of SSL/TLS support in HAProxy, from its introduction in version 1.5 to the latest features in version 3.2, examining best practices and library support for optimal TLS configuration.…
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William Lallemand
Software Engineer
Reverse HTTP: a hidden gem
This presentation covers Reverse HTTP, a method to expose internal services to the outside world using HAProxy. It covers various use cases including NAT traversal, development scenarios, and one-way DMZs, and the current status and future potential of Reverse HTTP.…
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Amaury Denoyelle
Software Engineer