What

In the last story we learned that part of Gorouter’s job is to be a reverse proxy.

But what is a reverse proxy??? Let’s find out!

How

  1. 🎬Watch this Hussein Nasser’s video “Proxy vs Reverse Proxy Server Explained” length 14:17

and/or

  1. 📚Read CloudFlare’s “What Is A Reverse Proxy?”

Questions

❓Hussein mentioned 5 use cases for a reverse proxy: caching, load balancing, ingress, canary deployment, and microservices. Which use cases do you think Gorouter is used for?