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Beginners guide to gateways and proxies

Peter Jausovec on April 27, 2020

Have you heard of gateways, proxies (forward and reverse), load balancers, API gateways? You probably did, and even if you haven't you might have h...
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leob

Fantastic article, love it, especially the "hands on" part! This really demystified the "proxy" concept for me in a humane and comprehensible way. Great teaching.

So, what you call an "egress gateway" is that the same as a "reverse proxy"? And is a "gateway" the same thing as a "proxy"?

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K-Sato

Very well explained!! Love the mall analogy!!!

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Peter Jausovec

Thank you! I wasn’t sure how far I could stretch it :)

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Aditya Sridhar

Excellent article. Explains gateways very well. Thanks for writing this

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Peter Jausovec

Thank you Aditya!

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Cristian Popescu • Edited

Something I really appreciate is when you allow the user to just get some knowledge about the topic before getting in with an example.

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Peter Jausovec

Thanks Cristian! Some of the topics I write and talk about can be very daunting for beginners. There are a lot of things that build on top of each other, so it's always hard to decide how far you want to go.

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Roberto Carrasquillo

Awesome post 👍🏼

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Peter Jausovec

Thanks Robert!

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Stef Joosten

I really like this presentation, Peter. Chapeau!

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Peter Jausovec

Thanks Stef!

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fkl

Amazing article, a well balanced overview followed by practical and real world examples to the point of setting up and performing routine tasks needed for a gateway.