Willy Terreau

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Willy Tarreau

Willy released the first version of HAProxy in 2001, welcomed the first contribution in 2004, and became a Linux kernel maintainer in 2006. His focus has always been on the lower layers where efficiency can still be improved after everything was squeezed at visible layers, and on reliability, probably because he hates revisiting complex code.

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The History of HAProxy

HAProxy's origin story is one that has not been told and you may be curious about its roots and what drove it to be what it is today.

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