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Not being involved in this kind of scaled-up devops kind of stuff, my read of this article was "HAProxy sounds awful"... but they noted in the article 1) Migra
by Pxtl 6y ago
Not being involved in this kind of scaled-up devops kind of stuff, my read of this article was "HAProxy sounds awful"... but they noted in the article
1) Migrating to better software, and
2) Newer versions of HAProxy are also better software.
But yeah, the first half where they're discussing "we don't do X, Y, or Z clean, idempotent way of doing config because the HAProxy doesn't perform right if you do it that way." sounded painfully familiar for a bunch of awful tools that I've used.
- kevmo314 6y agoI don't think that's fair. HAProxy is good and reliable. It's just old for the use cases we need today. Even the article has this opinion: > While HAProxy has served us well and reliably for many years, it also has some operational sharp edges Saying it sounds awful is like saying Vanilla JS sounds awful because it doesn't scale to the demanding webapp use cases of today. And, as you mentioned, it's really compounded by the fact that they're using an outdated version of HAProxy, but that doesn't make it awful software.