Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

How much do you really know about the Orion® Platform? Regardless of your level of expertise, even the most seasoned user will learn a thing or two in this episode. We'll go through dashboards, customizations, features, functions, you name it. Learn from SolarWinds® Orion Platform experts, ask them questions, and share your own pro tips during live chat and Q&A.

At Willhaben, we run Austria’s largest classified advertising marketplace. We started using HAProxy due to our need to move to an all-HTTPS environment. Since then, we’ve leveraged HAProxy for geo-redundancy, HTTP/2, integration with Kubernetes, and blocking suspicious activity. In this talk, I will explain how we gradually shifted from basic HAProxy functionality to our current deployment, and will also describe where we encountered trouble in our production environment and how we overcame it. We are currently serving 5-6 gigabits per second of peak traffic via HAProxy, with about 20k requests per second.

Keeping your service configuration aligned over hundreds of hosts is never a simple task. This talk will illustrate how the University of Paderborn automated the integration of HAProxy into our infrastructure. As our current generation of load balancer appliances approached the end of life and we thought about improving how we managed our services, our goal was clear: we needed a scalable, consistent, active-active setup of load balancers that could be easily automated with open-source tools. We achieve scalability with Anycast but needed to make sure the configurations could keep up with application changes.

EMA Research highlighted how Workload Automation data is a rich source of valuable information that should be used to advise a broad array of decision making, see how Automation Intelligence helps you deliver better SLAs to the business and allows you to reduce breaches that impact your business.

At Criteo, we work at the cutting edge of commerce marketing, using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to help our customers grow their businesses through hyper-relevant advertising. We run tens of thousands of servers, host containers that continuously move across data centers, and scale services through our managed APIs, with HAProxy playing a critical role across our fast-paced, event-driven infrastructure. This presentation will describe our journey to achieve load balancing served via a user-centric API in such a large and complex environment. We will share tricks and design considerations that helped us to go from a user intent expressed through an API to a scalable service running globally.

DoubleVerify authenticates the quality of digital media for the world’s largest brands. We use HAProxy to accomplish our goals of processing billions of requests daily, increasing and decreasing load balancer pools without affecting customers, and avoiding downtime during upgrades and maintenance periods. We will share our criteria we used when we set out to move from hardware to software load balancers, how we arrived at the decision to use HAProxy, and the results we’ve seen before and afterwards.

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.