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@muskaan___07 No. But learn a 2nd skill like CDL or electrician incase Human Resources gatekeeps you out.
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Most DevOps engineers have heard of the term "reverse proxy," but few understand what it actually means.
I was in a technical interview once where someone confidently said, "Nginx is a reverse proxy," but couldn't explain what that meant or why it mattered.
Let me break this down.
>> A Forward Proxy (Proxy) sits between you and the internet. <<
> You want to visit a website.
> Your request goes through the proxy first.
> The proxy makes requests on your behalf.
> The website sees the proxy's IP, not yours.
> This is what VPNs do.
> This is what corporate networks use to control what employees can access.
The client is hidden.
The server doesn't know who the real requester is.
>> A Reverse Proxy flips this completely. <<
> You're trying to access a website.
> You think you're connecting to the actual server.
> But you're hitting a proxy that sits in front of the real servers.
> The proxy receives your request, decides which backend server should handle it, forwards it there, gets the response, and sends it back to you.
> You have no idea how many servers are behind that proxy.
The servers are hidden.
This is what Nginx does. This is what Load Balancers do.
>> Use Cases of Proxy and Reverse Proxy <<
>> Forward Proxy: Bypassing Restrictions
Suppose your government banned your favorite sites, and you still want to access them.
- That's when you use a Forward Proxy (VPN).
- It routes your traffic through another country.
Suddenly, you're browsing those sites behind locked doors.
>> Reverse Proxy: Protecting Your Infrastructure
Suppose your website is popular, and you keep getting DDoS attacks by hackers, and your servers are melting.
- This is where you use a Reverse Proxy.
- It hides your servers behind Cloudflare or AWS WAF.
- Attackers hit the proxy, not your infrastructure.
- Add firewall rules and rate limiting at the proxy level.
- Bad traffic never reaches your servers.
>> But Modern Reverse Proxies Do Much More <<
- Traditional reverse proxies (Nginx/HAProxy) focused on load balancing.
Modern reverse proxies (Envoy/Cloudflare) have evolved into Zero Trust enforcement points:
- They continuously verify user identity and device health before granting access.
- They provide granular, encrypted access to specific resources.
- They operate as an identity-aware security mesh, not just traffic routers.
- This is the shift from "hide and distribute" to "verify and enforce."
To Conclude: A forward proxy hides you from the internet. A reverse proxy hides the internet from you.
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@Its_Nova1012 People are using artificial intelligence to answer this question
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People are using artificial intelligence to answer this question
NOVA@Its_Nova1012
Backend interview question: your UUID generation has never produced a duplicate. in 5 years. across 500 million records. today it did. mathematically it shouldn't happen. but it did. why?
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@yash_patel2003 Probably hire 80% less people, still proves the OP
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@avrldotdev Do you really think that's going to happen?
Like if you are the CEO of a tech startup would you trust AI that much that you leave everything for it?
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thought this sh!t was AI, what we doing man
FearBuck@FearedBuck
New York Giants QB Jaxson Dart introduces President Trump ahead of his speech in New York.
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@Its_Nova1012 Software engineer jobs went up from 2023 despite AI being around in 2022, and rising up in 2026 (for now possibly). I still wouldn’t recommend this career path for anyone new but it may not be as bleak for anyone in the thick of it.
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@harryjsisson How would you Know what a good QB is, you turd weasel!
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@Its_Nova1012 @pothuLabs If you could wire a Cisco Router/Switch, you could be an elecrtrician.
Different terms & voltage.
Same concept.
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Christians would be outraged if a Muslim student did this.
Bryce Crawford@ibrycecrawford
🚨 I Preached The Gospel At My Graduation 🧑🎓
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@RationalMale The same people who call men a pedophile for sleeping with a 25 year old girl are saying that a female teacher sleeping with a 15 year old boy is not a pedophile.
Perhaps tradcons & feminists are not the greatest bellwether as to what a pedophile is?
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@TazimWajidWajed Abdul Carter believes in Black Lives Matter & feminism and other garbage fascist hate groups. You're liable to lots of fucking pushback if you support hate
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