Let's say you've built an interesting Python application that runs locally on your machine. Great! Now how can you make that application usable as a service or an API? A lot of times, people build many services that need to play well together to build a final application. An obvious solution to this is to … Continue reading How To Create A Web Server In Python Using Flask
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How To Setup Nginx For Load Balancing?
Let's say that you have a nice idea for a website and you want to host it somewhere to make it available to the users. To do this, you put your website on a server somewhere on the cloud. Then, you purchase a domain name and you redirect all the requests to this server. But … Continue reading How To Setup Nginx For Load Balancing?
Forward Proxy vs Reverse Proxy
In the previous two blog posts, we discussed about forward and reverse proxies. In this post, we will look at a real example and see how we differentiate between the two. The word proxy describes someone acting on behalf of anyone else. In the world of computers, we are talking about one machine acting on … Continue reading Forward Proxy vs Reverse Proxy
What Is A Reverse Proxy?
In the previous blog post, we discussed about proxy servers. Proxy servers basically act like buffers that monitor everything that comes into the user's machine. We talked about why we need them and how they are used in real life scenarios. We used the analogy of what a person aims to achieve when he proxies … Continue reading What Is A Reverse Proxy?
What Is A Proxy Server?
If you are a techie, regardless of the field you are in, you must have heard the term "proxy server". If you are a web developer, you would hear that term a lot! Off the top of your head, what do you think a proxy server is? It's basically very similar to what a person … Continue reading What Is A Proxy Server?
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