
An HTTP request journey to the Backend | Backend Engineering Show
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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Reverse Proxy - What Is It?
Reverse proxy is like an exact reverse of a proxy. The client doesn't know anything about the actual final back end. 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 pros and cones for both approaches. No true right or wrong. It's all decisions that you can make based on your work lod so now we now the ap i getway packages that get request,. Maybe most of the time, adds more, even more headers to that request, and then ships us to the back end. And usually the ap i getsway er to the backend. This is a local network
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