Mark is a core authority in the design and engineering of high-performance load balancing systems. His expertise is rooted in deep technical knowledge of the Linux Kernel, HAProxy, and LVS (Linux Virtual Server). He focuses on breaking and optimizing systems like HAProxy with load testing, ensuring maximum resilience, high availability, and efficient protocol handling like SNAT and SSL offload. He also loves frisbee!
HAProxy is awesome. So awesome in fact, that here at Loadbalancer.org HQ - I find it very difficult to generate enough load to break it...so let's try harder!..
There are a lot of SSL offload throughput statistics available for appliances across the internet but rarely do they detail the way they were tested...
Does it seem like some appliance vendors go out of their way to make hardware recovery and licencing as difficult as possible?..
This script was designed primarily to be tied into Ldirectord but feel free to adapt it to your needs, and if you do make changes dont be a stranger post your adaptations below!..
A couple of customers asked if our appliances would do G-Zip compression. In the past we hadn't given it much thought until someone offered us a card to test it!..
The vast majority of layer 4 load balancers use LVS in two-arm NAT mode...
