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Episode 545: John deVadoss on Design Philosophies that Drive .NET/Azure

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What Is a Proxy or an Agent?

A proxy, at least for this discussion and certainly what we had in terms of the philosophy is this entity that you would communicate with in the place of the actual destination. And so in terms of a mental model, it was an emissary. It's an agent, right? It's an agents that we talked to and the agent would then actually communicate to the service,. Now that I'm thinking about it, right? A proxy via wrapper, right? Sometimes in the tooling, you know, the tools will basically look at an API, like a postman API and say, okay, I'll give you a proxy. But the proxy for agents, the agents in particular,

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