Over on the Twilio Engineering Blog, I have a new post about optimizing your HAProxy configuration. I wrote this mostly because we had some confusion in our configuration about setting options, and if I had it I figured others would as well. Here's a sample:

retries 2
option redispatch

When I said a 30 second connect timeout meant HAProxy would try a bad connection for 30 seconds, I lied. It turns out that by default HAProxy will retry the connect attempt 3 times. So our 30 second connect timeout is actually a 120 second connect timeout, blowing through our SLA and meaning we're returning an empty response to the customer.

Read the full post to learn more about HAProxy.

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