HAProxy Technologies, the company behind the most popular open-source load balancer HAProxy just got into the CDN business. In doing so, they’ve done something that Nginx (F5) and Varnish Software declined to do. HAProxy refers to its CDN as an
Load balancers play a critical role in helping enterprises scale internet infrastructure. At the most basic level, load balancers ingest incoming internet traffic, then distributes the load across server infrastructure, as was the case when Google helped Niantic launch Pokémon
Since its inception in 2001, HAproxy has grown to become one of the most widely used open source load balancers on the market. It was designed specifically as a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based
