
The Journey of an HTTP request to the Backend | Backend Engineering Show
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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How to Setup a Reverse Proxy Connection?
Reverse proxy is like a proxy, but talks to an actual back in. The client doesn't know anything about the actual final back end as t what the definition of a reverse proxy is rigt you, as a client, talks to the reverse proxy,. It just hides it from you. Now this is where the creativity of engineering backing ingenio comes into the picture. Do you establish a connection on the spot? Or do you preheat this connection prior in anticipation that some one might actually send a request? Thereis prows and cons for both approaches. No true right or wrong; there's nothing like that. It's all decisions that you make based on work load.
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