--- title: "#122: Dynamic Scaling for Microservices with the HAProxy Runtime API" publication: "StatusCode Weekly" issue: 122 published_at: "2017-06-28" canonical_url: "https://weekly.statuscode.com/issues/122" --- WebOps Weekly 122 . The latest Web operations, HTTP, and Web performance news -[Read this on the Web](https://webopsweekly.com/issues/122) [![WebOps Weekly\](https://webopsweekly.com/images/webops-header.png)](https://webopsweekly.com) Issue 122 — June 28, 2017 [Dynamic Scaling for Microservices with the HAProxy Runtime API](https://www.haproxy.com/blog/dynamic-scaling-for-microservices-with-runtime-api/?utm_source=webopsweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial HAProxy has a ‘Runtime API’ which can be used to dynamically scale backend servers up and down during runtime. 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