Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Mar 7, 2022 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, OBSERVABILITY
HAProxy and HAProxy Enterprise collect a vast amount of information about the health of your applications being load balanced. That data, which uses the Prometheus text-based format for metrics, is published to a web page hosted by the load balancer, and since many...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Feb 15, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
Load balancing is an indispensable technique for improving a website’s performance. I’ll explain why. With Firefox’s Web Developer Tools open, I visited a popular retailer’s website to see how many HTTP requests my browser made when loading the...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Feb 4, 2022 | DEVOPS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
Every load balancer you’ll find on the market must deliver performance, reliability, scalability, and security, and do it better than its competitors. Each must solve complex programming challenges that address those needs—choices that will affect the direction...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jan 24, 2022 | TECH
When someone says a website is available, they mean that they can access that website. The application they’re trying to reach is up and working properly. High availability means that the website is up most of the time throughout the year. Companies can even put...
Nick Ramirez Nick Ramirez | Jan 17, 2022 | BASICS, LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING
Load balancing means splitting up network traffic so that you can distribute it evenly across a group of backend servers. For example, if you run two web servers, both hosting a copy of the same website, then you can balance the traffic across them, sending half to...
