HAProxyConf 2019

This presentation will describe the challenges, benefits and overwhelming success of deploying a PoP network using HAProxy. You will learn how Stadia Maps uses HAProxy to increase and track performance, ensure reliability and uptime, and enforce authentication and authorization for our mapping servi… Read more

At Criteo, we have been working on building a tight integration between HashiCorp Consul and HAProxy. In this talk, we will explain how we provision our HAProxy instances dynamically using Consul Connect, a new service mesh technology that allows HAProxy to talk to its peers from machine-to-machine … Read more

At Willhaben, we run Austria’s largest classified advertising marketplace. We started using HAProxy due to our need to move to an all-HTTPS environment. Since then, we’ve leveraged HAProxy for geo-redundancy, HTTP/2, integration with Kubernetes, and blocking suspicious activity. In this talk, I will… Read more

HAProxy is often used to route ingress traffic, but we use it the other way around. We use it for egress. Our applications talk to the outside world through HAProxy. We get a lot of benefits from this unique approach: throttling, guaranteed response times, unified monitoring, and path rewriting. I w… Read more

This presentation will describe how Go and other developers can integrate with HAProxy via the HAProxy Data Plane API and it's packages. We will explain the motivation behind this new product and provide an overview of how we used the OpenAPI specification, including how models and server stubs are … Read more

Vimeo uses HAProxy throughout the business, where it's an integral part of delivering over a petabyte of video per day to millions of viewers. In this presentation, you will learn how we use and monitor HAProxy; You'll learn about the Bounded-Load Consistent Hashing algorithm that Vimeo contributed … Read more

Process management in HAProxy has evolved since the beginning of the project; With the advent of new init systems and process managers, managing HAProxy processes became complicated due to the multi-processes architecture of the project. The Master Worker mode simplifies the process management and i… Read more

This year, HAProxy reached a significant milestone: the release of a new, major version, 2.0! Many changes have been stirring up the realm of high availability, including the rise of containerized and cloud-native applications, Kubernetes, and heightened awareness about security threats. The communi… Read more

This year, HAProxy reached a significant milestone: the release of a new, major version, 2.0! Many changes have been stirring up the realm of high availability, including the rise of containerized and cloud-native applications, Kubernetes, and heightened awareness about security threats. The communi… Read more

PlaceWise Digital is the leading provider of digital services to the shopping center industry, delivering over 200 million digital engagements annually to over 800 shopping center clients throughout North America. In the US alone, the company possesses a nearly 50% market share, yet our infrastructu… Read more

Oui.sncf sells tickets and passes for rail travel around Europe. We operate the #1 French e-commerce website with more than 83 million travel products sold and more than 12 million unique visitors per month. We've been using HAProxy since 2009. When we decided to build our own CDN solution in 2015, … Read more

At Criteo, we work at the cutting edge of commerce marketing, using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to help our customers grow their businesses through hyper-relevant advertising. We run tens of thousands of servers, host containers that continuously move across data centers, and scale … Read more

At GitHub, we're supporting a community where more than 36-million people learn, share, and work together to build software. This requires building fault tolerant systems and reliable software that's able to serve tens of thousands of requests every second. Our load balancing solution, which we call… Read more

CenterDevice offers secure document storage and sharing with OCR, full text indexing and automatic versioning. Our SREs use HAProxy to gain insights into usage of our services, diagnose issues, and throttle or reject requests based on HAProxy ACLs. In this talk, you will see how we generate HAProxy … Read more

HAProxy is a critical component of DigitalOcean's load balancer solution; here is an exciting opportunity to see how they are put together under the hood! We will outline how our load balancers are currently built, and some detail of how we leverage HAProxy in our environment. We'll also discuss s… Read more

ThredUP is the largest online consignment store for women’s and children’s clothes. ThredUP was launched in 2009 as a monolithic application running on Amazon Web Services. Since then it has evolved into a fully containerized distributed system powered by Kubernetes, with HAProxy playing a key role … Read more

Yammer is a social networking tool built into Microsoft 365 to openly engage and connect across your organization. Yammer has been a long-time user of HAProxy to load balance its application stack. When we moved to Microsoft Azure, we transitioned to a design that relies heavily on container orchest… Read more

DoubleVerify authenticates the quality of digital media for the world's largest brands. We use HAProxy to accomplish our goals of processing billions of requests daily, increasing and decreasing load balancer pools without affecting customers, and avoiding downtime during upgrades and maintenance p… Read more

This presentation will provide an overview of the new Data Plane API, which you can use to configure your load balancer using HTTP REST commands. You will learn how to get started and how to build tools to work with it. You will also learn how to configure a frontend/backend and modify a configurati… Read more

In 2018, we migrated several video-on-demand/replay platforms from on-premise to the AWS cloud. HAProxy was the key to this migration, allowing us to move safely and without any downtime. We'll take a deep dive through the configuration used to secure our migration, highlighting aspects such as our … Read more

Booking.com has grown from a small Dutch startup to one of the largest travel e-commerce companies in the world. Maintaining reliable and resilient service to our customers is of the utmost importance. Our Global Traffic Distribution team is tasked with developing, scaling, and maintaining the load … Read more

Keeping your service configuration aligned over hundreds of hosts is never a simple task. This talk will illustrate how the University of Paderborn automated the integration of HAProxy into our infrastructure. As our current generation of load balancer appliances approached end of life and we though… Read more