I would like to load-balance my application servers, as well as cache the responses from them.
I've read an article dating back to 2012 on HAProxy's website, that was supposed to clear the confusion between HAProxy and Varnish:
http://blog.haproxy.com/2012/07/04/haproxy-and-varnish-comparison/
This article basically says that HAProxy is a reverse-proxy load balancer only (no cache), while Varnish is a reverse-proxy cache (no load balancing), hence they are complementary.
But today, I can see in Varnish docs that it does load balancing as well:
https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/LoadBalancing
So I can only guess that this feature has been introduced since 2012, and that it now directly competes with HAProxy in terms of load balancing.
Now considering that I need a reverse-proxy cache + load balancer, is it true that I can use a single server with Varnish only, that will do both? Any limitations maybe, compared to a typical HAProxy <-> Varnish setup?