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Rate limiting based on AWS VPC ID

Managing incoming web traffic for your applications is essential to ensuring optimal performance, preventing abuse, and maintaining the security of your cloud infrastructure. To accomplish this, one of the tools HAProxy Enterprise users have at their disposal is rate limiting—the practice of preventing clients from making too many requests and using system resources unfairly.

Announcing HAProxy 2.9

HAProxy 2.9 further extends HAProxy's performance, flexibility, and observability. This release came together through the efforts of all the community members who got involved. A release like this requires feature requests, bug reports, forum discussions, code submissions, QA tests, and documentation! In other words, this project is fueled by people like you! If you're interested in joining this vibrant community, it can be found on GitHub, Slack, Discourse, and the HAProxy mailing list.

KubeCon NA 2023: Celebrating Innovation and the K8s Community

The sun has officially set on KubeCon North America 2023, but the CNCF's flagship event has left a lasting impression on us. Roughly 9,000 Kubernetes enthusiasts descended on Chicago's McCormick Place West to see the K8s community's latest innovations. DevOps professionals, engineers, and architects alike were eager to share and boost their K8s knowledge. Overall, HAProxy joined over 250 other sponsor organizations to celebrate open-source, cloud-native technologies over four activity-packed days.

Why Implementing App Security Can Lead To Spiraling Costs

Robust app security is non-negotiable, but the spiraling costs that can come with it are. In the context of application delivery, security plays a pivotal role in maintaining business continuity, protecting sensitive data, and upholding a solid reputation. However, the journey to build a formidable defense at the load balancing and reverse proxy layer can quickly become costly with a few wrong turns. Security is important, but buyers don’t have to break the bank to implement it.

How to Extract Insightful Data From Proxy Protocol Packets

Boosting the transparency of your load balancer traffic is advantageous. Web applications continually pass information back and forth, yet some of this important data is often hard to get during transit. And while the perceived “black box” nature of networking seems overwhelming, what if you could peek behind the curtain to better understand your traffic?

Why Your Load Balancer Should Be Fast & Flexible

The intersection of economic uncertainty and digital transformation presents a unique challenge for businesses. With the fear of a recession looming overhead, there’s no doubt that choppy waters await, but what does this mean for IT when tech spending can significantly impact the bottom line? While IT spending is a priority for many, businesses are still seeking ways to reduce non-essential spending and upgrade outdated infrastructure.

HAProxy's Growth Continues with Rave Reviews and Powerful Capabilities

The G2 Fall 2023 Reports are in! And while leaves are on the verge of tumbling downward, HAProxy's acclaim across multiple categories, market levels, and global segments has only risen. For companies looking for—or migrating from—a load-balancing solution, HAProxy delivers simple adoption, scalable performance, strong security, and observable operation. Altogether, across six product categories HAProxy featured in 58 reports and won 30 badges, including “Momentum Leader”.