The next edition of HAProxyConf is already in the works.
Currently, our call for papers process is open-ended. Submit
now, and we will inform you about the upcoming deadlines as
soon as they are published.
HAProxyConf presentations will be given at the in-person
conference and live-streamed to our virtual platform on the
conference dates. Our team will work with the presenters to help
perfect the content of each talk.
Submissions will be accepted either
through the form below or by
email at
submission@haproxy.com. For email submissions, please be sure to provide all of the
data requested in the form in order to be considered.
Read more about the submission topic ideas in the following
“Submission Recommendations” section.
Submission Recommendations
End-user use cases are highly preferred. Presentations that
include details on your unique challenges, how HAProxy
technologies were able to solve them, and what benefits you
achieved will be strongly considered. The list below will
give you an idea about the topic areas that we hope to see:
Infrastructure / High Availability
Infrastructure / High Availability (building resilient infrastructure)
CI/CD, automating HAProxy
High availability in multiple data centers
High availability in cloud, on-premises, and during migrations
Chaos engineering
High availability for IoT
Beginner / starting out with HAProxy, HAProxy 101
Lessons learned, journeys
Disaster recovery
Adopting a high availability mindset
Site Reliability Engineering
Configuration management
HA for storage
Load Balancing / API Gateway
Custom-built service discovery mechanisms using HAProxy's server-template directive or the HAProxy Data Plane API
Using HAProxy as an API gateway
Global load balancing
Transitioning from other Load Balancer/Proxy technologies to HAProxy
Security
Using HAProxy as a security proxy
Using HAProxy for bot protection
Replacing ADN, CDN or WAF vendors with HAProxy
Kubernetes / Cloud-native
Containers, Docker, Kubernetes ingress
Service Mesh
Building a service mesh with HAProxy
Integrating HAProxy in an existing service mesh
Observability
Leveraging the power of HAProxy stats and logs
Integrating HAProxy in tracing flow
Monitoring, metrics, analytics
Logs, aggregation, data mining
Anomaly detection
Real user monitoring
Extensibility
Extending HAProxy with Lua
Extending HAProxy with SPOE
Demos
Tips and tricks with HAProxy
Abusing HAProxy features for unintended purposes
Soft Skills
Mentoring, Ops teamwork, learning
Teaching junior Ops team members
Submission Do’s and Don’ts:
Do provide all information required in the paper submission
form, including speaker information.
Do give your talk a simple and interesting title.
Do explain why attendees should want to listen to your
presentation and what lessons they will learn by doing so.
Do submit compelling end-user use case and/or HAProxy
product/feature proposals.
Do include as much detail about your proposed talk as possible.
The more information we have about your topic, the more likely
it is to be accepted.
Do abide by all important dates, including the submission
deadline and speaker acceptance dates.
Do keep the abstract concise (200 words or less), but still
cover enough detail for the audience to get a clear
understanding of what you will present.
Do not try to boil the ocean. Please limit the scope of your
presentation accordingly.
Do not submit obvious vendor or product pitches. The goal of
HAProxyConf is to provide exceptional and informative
presentations for our attendees. Your proposal will not be
considered if it is a clear attempt to promote your company
and/or non-HAProxy product.
Post Conference Publication
All sessions will be recorded and made available online at a
future date. Presenters will be required to sign a speaker
acknowledgment form as part of the Speaker Acceptance process,
granting the right to use your presentation online at the
discretion of HAProxyConf. Additional details will be provided to
all accepted speakers upon notification of their acceptance.
If you have any questions about the Call for Papers submission
process, please contact us at submission@haproxy.com.