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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