Vimeo uses HAProxy throughout the business, where it’s an integral part of delivering over a petabyte of video per day to millions of viewers. In this presentation, you will learn how we use and monitor HAProxy; You’ll learn about the Bounded-Load Consistent Hashing algorithm that Vimeo contributed to HAProxy 1.7 and other improvements in HAProxy 1.8, 1.9, and 2.0 that have improved our performance and simplified administration.

PlaceWise Digital is the leading provider of digital services to the shopping center industry, delivering over 200 million digital engagements annually to over 800 shopping center clients throughout North America. In the US alone, the company possesses a nearly 50% market share, yet our infrastructure team is just one: me. In this talk, I’m going to share my experiences using HAProxy to meet the demands of serving millions of visitors on Black Friday, dealing with applications that can’t be clustered, and other technical challenges that we faced and overcame to build a robust and scalable platform.

This presentation will describe the challenges, benefits and overwhelming success of deploying a PoP network using HAProxy. You will learn how Stadia Maps uses HAProxy to increase and track performance, ensure reliability and uptime, and enforce authentication and authorization for our mapping services. Specific topics covered will be replacing active authentication with ACLs, using HAProxy’s syslog output to track usage and enforce quotas, using SRV records to route (and reroute) traffic, and the challenges encountered running an IP failover-based setup at scale.