[NDizzle]

Downvote me all you want but “architects” need to look at the solution landscape at least once in 15 years.

[detaro]

Plenty areas of software where HAProxy is not part of the relevant "solution landscape".

[NDizzle]

Systems architect?! I want a load balancer. What’s your top 5 excluding HAProxy?

[AdrianB1]

You don't need 5, especially when the load balancing is part of the network or infrastructure team that are a different group. Some companies have hardware load balancers, some use products like VMWare NSX or both, depending on the needs. When you are a Windows shop, HAProxy is not on the short list, hearing about it and actually knowing it are 2 different sides of the coin.