Introduce and demonstrate haproxy as a web-scale load-balancer

Outline

• Introduce haproxy as a webscale load-balancer capable of scaling any workloads
• Demonstrate haproxy as a solution to scaling webservers, webservices, DB and discuss just about scaling any specific technology the audience wants to discuss
• Discuss load-balancing strategies with an example
• Discuss specific architecure solutions for magento, wordpress, drupal and elucidate how even a structureless/frameworkless app can be scaled
• Introduce inotify based sync mechanism as an alternative to shared storage for use in load-balanced webservers
• Introduce to security features of haproxy like rate-limiting and blackholing techniques to avoid webservers from being overwhelmed by specific attacks (should not be taken as DDoS protection schemes)
• Demonstrate any audience query on load-balancing with an example (time permitting, we can do a full deployment)

Requirements

• GNU/Linux laptops with SSH clients or windows laptops with putty
• SSH public keys generated and ready (we can give access to demo infra setup with load-balancers and the audience can modify configs on them to test their specific questions)

Speaker bio

open source fanboy, COO of E2ENetworks