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You open a website. It loads instantly. You assume your browser is talking directly to the server. Most of the time, it isn’t.Between you and the server sits an invisible middleman, one that filters traffic, caches responses, blocks attacks, and some...

🎯 What this project consolidates You already know CI/CD. Now we consolidate runtime architecture. You will practice: Docker Compose (real-world usage) Service-to-service communication Reverse proxying with Nginx Port isolation (security thinking...

After building a few CLI tools in Go — from a task tracker to a movie fetcher, and even a GitHub activity tracker — I wanted to explore something a little deeper.Something that combines networking, concurrency, and caching, while still keeping things...

I always used to get confused between a Forward Proxy and a Reverse Proxy—both seem similar, but they serve very different purposes in the world of networking and security. In this blog, I will break down these concepts with clear diagrams and real-w...
