Since I joined Flipkart, I have been been playing around with a lot of linux, networking, k8s, elb, go etc. Although hugely overwhelming at first sight, the learning is proving to be fun and interesting.

Thought of starting a blog to assimilate some ideas in a fun and interesting way. In this blogpost, I have talked about hands on loadbalancing with haproxy, coupled with go and docker compose.

In the modern world of distributed systems, it would be a sin to expose your applications without critical load balancing. We see what pitfalls your app can land into without loadbalancing, and then go on to setup a docker compose cluster locally to test our app with haproxy armoring it. And of course, memes included!

Read the blog here on Medium.

The blog gained a lot of traction and the in fact, the official HAProxy Technologies Twitter channel reposted this!

Find the embed tweet here on Twitter.

The Github Code is enclosed here for your exploration.