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HAProxyConf 2019 - Hyperscaling Self-Service Infrastructure with William Dauchy & Pierre Cheynier

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.

APIs and API monitoring basics for project managers

If you’re a developer, you know all about APIs. However, if you’re in a non-technical role, you may not have the information you need to make educated decisions about the APIs your company offers and uses. In this article, we will take you through the API basics: what they are, how they work, why they’re important, and what you can do to protect your business’s reliance on API performance and uptime.

RapidAPI Review - A Guide On How To Use It

As an all-encompassing marketplace, RapidAPI has become a popular option for developers and vendors alike. So what does it have to offer and how can you harness it effectively to get the most out of its features and benefits? On the surface, the concept of RapidAPI is simple; it aims to act as your one-stop-shop for a wide variety of RESTful APIs which can be deployed to tackle a plethora of potential projects.