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Salman Asu
Salman Asu

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Load balancer vs Gateway vs reverse proxy vs forward proxy

Today I will discuss about most use service in system design and difference between them.

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load balancer distribute load to different server according to algorithim set in load balancer configuration.

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  • Gateway have additional + load balancer.

  • it can process the request and send response + distribute load to different server according to alogrithim set in load balancer configuration.

  • above I have discuss about two scenario.

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forward proxy is used to hide the user identity. it make a request to server on behave of client.

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reverce proxy is used to hide the server identity. it make a response to client on behave of server.

simple request response using all the services in one system.

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