HAProxy Technologies

HAProxy Technologies is the company behind HAProxy, an open-source software load balancer and proxy server, and HAProxy One, its commercial application delivery and security platform. The company develops and maintains software for traffic management, load balancing, and application security, serving large-scale web platforms, cloud providers, and enterprises. Their core product suite, HAProxy One, consists of three main components: - HAProxy Enterprise: A data plane layer providing load balancing, API/AI gateway functionality, Kubernetes application routing, SSL/TLS processing, and multi-layered security features. - HAProxy Fusion Control Plane: A control plane for managing, monitoring, and automating multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and multi-team HAProxy Enterprise deployments. - HAProxy Edge: A global application delivery network (ADN) with threat intelligence capabilities enhanced by machine learning. On the security side, HAProxy Technologies offers web application firewall (WAF), DDoS protection, bot management, API and AI traffic protection, and rate limiting. These security features are integrated directly into the load balancing and traffic management layer rather than offered as standalone products. The platform supports HTTP, TCP, UDP, and QUIC protocols and can be deployed on bare-metal Linux servers, virtual machines, containers, and cloud environments. HAProxy also provides a Kubernetes ingress controller and direct-to-pod load balancing for cloud-native deployments. Notable users include Booking.com, LinkedIn, PayPal, Roblox, Microsoft, Docker, GitHub, Cloudflare, and DigitalOcean. The company offers 24/7 enterprise support and positions itself as independently owned and operated.