Willy Tarreau, author of HAProxy, semi-recently wrote a very in-depth article about HAProxy's reload process and how it could, under certain conditions, drop/reset connections during reloading. With HAProxy 1.8, this will finally be no more. I did a…

This post may seem like it should be blatantly obvious, but in the last month alone, I've heard of numerous people using screen and/or cron to keep daemons alive. Worse, there's even semi-official guides out there that still recommend it, even in thi…