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Demystifying GSLB in Cisco ACI: How to fix failover quirks and avoid the iQuery headache
As we scale these environments across geographically dispersed locations, a major challenge emerges...
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HAProxy Enterprise Edition vs Progress Kemp LoadMaster: A no-fluff engineer comparison
Jeff Gosden
QA Lead
Storage
ENVOY Proxy versus Loadbalancer.org: Why storage vendors need purpose-built load balancing for S3, NFS, and SMB
Joshua Turnbull
Managing Director
Healthcare
Help! Our legacy modalities are awesome — but they don't understand DNS!
Lenin Martinez
Professional Services Engineer
Hardening HashiCorp Vault with load balancing for always-on security
Nick Hawkins-Booth
Technical Support Engineer
In a production environment, Vault downtime isn't just a security risk — it’s a total operational hard-stop...
What's the best cloud load balancer? AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloudflare, or a third-party alternative?
Damian Pacuszka
Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer
Choosing the right load balancer is about much more than just moving traffic...
When is an ACL not an ACL? When it's an HAProxy ACL...
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
If you're from a network background or are of a certain age (or both!), you will have come across Access Control Lists or ACLs...
NetScaler troubleshooting: The complete guide to solving on-prem LAS Offline Activation headaches
Mick Hilhorst
Guest author
Turn those NetScaler on-prem LAS Offline Activation headaches into a set-it-and-forget-it (well almost!) licensing strategy...
Architecting the perfect Christmas? A Highly Available light display!
Nick Hawkins-Booth
Technical Support Engineer
In my household, only 100% uptime will do!..
How to load balance a MariaDB Galera Cluster for performance and HA using LVS & Ldirectord
Nick Hawkins-Booth
Technical Support Engineer
While a single MariaDB server might suffice for your application's backend, a MariaDB Galera Cluster offers significant advantages, making it a far superior solution...
Multi-AZ resilience: Why the recent AWS outage shows you need it
Damian Pacuszka
Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer
Don't wait for the next outage to expose gaps in your critical architecture...
Hardening the edge: Essential security lessons for F5 users following the recent breach
Joshua Turnbull
Managing Director
The question isn't whether another major vendor will suffer a breach — it's whether your infrastructure can survive it...
Loadbalancer.org Enterprise: A technical guide to Layer 7 Manual Configuration
Damian Pacuszka
Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer
For times when you need to dive deeper and implement advanced settings that aren't directly available through the standard interface...
Using Grafana Loki with HAProxy for log aggregation
Nick Hawkins-Booth
Technical Support Engineer
In today's security-conscious world, logs are crucial for gaining insight into your systems...
Layer 7 load balancing: The complete guide to boosting application performance
Damian Pacuszka
Solutions Architect & Technical Sales Engineer
Layer 7 is content-aware so able to make intelligent decisions about where to send traffic...
Optimizing data storage: Using content-length headers to solve the 'small objects problem'
Joe Robinson
Professional Services Lead & Partner Project Manager
Small workloads can sometimes create a unique set of problems that are hard to solve...