gRPC Conf 2019

HAProxy, the popular, open-source, software load balancer, has been steadily adding features for the past 17 years. Yet, as HTTP/2 and gRPC gained momentum, it became clear that core parts of the HAProxy engine should be redesigned to support them. In this talk, we'll share our process, challenges, and breakthroughs as we updated HAProxy to support the latest HTTP standard. Hear how recent changes allowed the project to add gRPC support even earlier than expected and how they'll continue to help accelerate cutting-edge feature delivery for modern environments.