InfoQ - Apache - Articles https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Apache Articles feed Article: When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale https://www.infoq.com/articles/scaling-reverse-proxies/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Apache-articles <img src="https://res.infoq.com/articles/scaling-reverse-proxies/en/headerimage/scaling-reverse-proxies-header-1762508754668.jpg"/><p>Operating massive reverse proxy fleets reveals hard lessons: optimizations that work on smaller systems fail at scale; mundane oversights like missing commas cause major outages; and abstractions meant to simplify become hidden fragility points. Success requires profiling on target hardware, relentlessly monitoring boring details, keeping hot paths lean, and trusting instrumentation over theory.</p> <i>By Mitendra Mahto</i> Apache Performance & Scalability Load Balancers Load Balancing DevOps Architecture & Design article Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/articles/scaling-reverse-proxies/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Apache-articles Mitendra Mahto 2025-11-12T09:00:00Z /articles/scaling-reverse-proxies/en