In this show, I go into detail on how HAProxy achieved 2 million HTTP requests per second. This is a very well-written article that discusses how the HAProxy team benchmarked the product on a 64 core ARM machine leading to over 2 million requests per second. There are many components and low-level points that I try to elaborate on, timestamps below.

• 0:00 Intro
• 2:40 Summary of the Article
• 11:55 Latency and Throughput in HAProxy 2.3 vs 2.4
• 21:00 How TCP Connections Affects Performance
• 28:00 Maximum Packets we can get in 100Gbps Network?
• 35:00 How 64 Cores are divided between workloads
• 40:00 Tail latencies HAProxy 2.3 vs 2.4
• 42:50 How TLS Affects Performance?

HAProxy Blog
https://www.haproxy.com/blog/haproxy-forwards-over-2-million-http-requests-per-second-on-a-single-aws-arm-instance/

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