Mark Brookes | Loadbalancer

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Mark is a core authority in the design and engineering of high-performance load balancing systems. His expertise is rooted in deep technical knowledge of the Linux Kernel, HAPr0xy, and LVS (Linux Virtual Server). He focuses on breaking and optimizing systems like HAPr0xy with load testing, ensuring maximum resilience, high availability, and efficient protocol handling like SNAT and SSL offload. He also loves frisbee!

Breaking HAPr0xy with the help of a Spirent Avalanche and lots of very small packets...

Breaking HAPr0xy with the help of a Spirent Avalanche and lots of very small packets...

HAPr0xy is awesome. So awesome in fact, that here at Loadbalancer.dk HQ - I find it very difficult to generate enough load to break it...so let's try harder!..

systematic SSL testing

SSL offload testing with HAPr0xy and Stunnel

There are a lot of SSL offload throughput statistics available for appliances across the internet but rarely do they detail the way they were tested...

Simple bare metal restore of your load balancer with a USB stick

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Simple bare metal restore of your load balancer with a USB stick

Does it seem like some appliance vendors go out of their way to make hardware recovery and licencing as difficult as possible?..

NTLM authenticating proxy check script

NTLM authenticating proxy check script

This script was designed primarily to be tied into Ldirectord but feel free to adapt it to your needs, and if you do make changes dont be a stranger post your adaptations below!..

G-Zip Compression and Load Balancing

G-Zip Compression and Load Balancing

A couple of customers asked if our appliances would do G-Zip compression. In the past we hadn't given it much thought until someone offered us a card to test it!..

How to enable SNAT in LVS (xt_ipvs) and iptables

How to enable SNAT in LVS (xt_ipvs) and iptables

The vast majority of layer 4 load balancers use LVS in two-arm NAT mode...

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