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#load-balancing
2 articles
◆BeginnerCloudflareNginx
01Forward vs Reverse Proxy (and API Gateway)
What "proxy" actually means in different contexts. Forward proxies, reverse proxies, load balancers, API gateways — what each does and where the lines blur.
#networking#proxy#architecture
15 min◆◆IntermediateAmazonMeta
02Consistent Hashing
Why hash-mod-N breaks when you resize, and how Amazon Dynamo, Cassandra, and Memcached avoid it with consistent hashing and virtual nodes.
#distributed-systems#hashing#sharding
9 min