Proxies & Reverse Proxies — Roadmap Step & Resources
Forward proxies vs reverse proxies and where they sit in a request path
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: System Design
Before this step
Interview questions
- What's the difference between a forward proxy and a reverse proxy?
Study resources
- Forward Proxy vs Reverse Proxy (Article) — Cloudflare's canonical explanation of forward proxies vs reverse proxies.
- NGINX Reverse Proxy Explained (Video) — A practical explanation of what a reverse proxy does and why systems use one.
Part of
- Networking & Web Fundamentals — section
- System Design roadmap — the full learning path