SE-Radio Episode 347: Daniel Corbett on Load Balancing and HAProxy

Daniel Corbett of HAProxy discusses how load balancers such as HAProxy are used to improve application scalability, reliability, and security. Host Jeremy Jung spoke with Corbett to explain the concept of load and how a load balancer can distribute it across application servers; the open systems interconnection (OSI) model and how it relates to load balancers; how HAProxy compares to other solutions and some of its defining features. Finally, they reflect on how the role of load balancers has changed in the modern landscape of microservices and container orchestration.

Related Links

• SE-Radio Episode 345: Tyler McMullen on CDNs
• Scaling a Web Service: Load Balancing
• Introduction to Modern Network Load Balancing and Proxying
• HAProxy Blog
• HAProxy Community Edition
• HAProxy Slack
• Keepalived
• Linux Virtual Server
• Nginx
• Envoy
• Daniel Corbett Twitter

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