PayPal runs six data centers, each with around 60,000 containers. Their 30,000 employees spin up nearly 10,000 test environments every day — roughly 6 to 10 every minute. Each environment requires three config updates: one to create the virtual service, and additional calls to configure and deploy the applications. Do the math and you get a staggering 30,000 config update...

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 brought thousands of cloud-native practitioners to Amsterdam for four days of talks, demos, and hallway conversations about where Kubernetes is heading. HAProxy Technologies came as a Diamond Sponsor, and by the time the exhibition floor closed on Thursday, it was clear that the market had reached the same conclusion we had. HAProxy is...

Today at KubeCon Amsterdam, we are announcing the 1.0 release of HAProxy Unified Gateway, incorporating valuable community feedback from our beta users. HAProxy Unified Gateway delivers unified, high-performance, cloud-native application routing backed by an open-source community with 25+ years of experience.

HAProxy Unified Gateway is...

Early in his career, Kelsey Hightower made a bet. The load balancer his team was running was consuming too much memory, and he was convinced he knew the fix. He told his manager: “If it doesn’t work, fire me. But I think I can make it work.” The fix was HAProxy....