Envoy — When Static Reverse Proxies Meet Cloud-Native
Manual reload, static upstreams, weak L7 observability — four limits a static reverse proxy hits in a cloud-native environment, and the four mechanisms Envoy uses to address them.
Reverse Proxy
Web Server, WAS, Reverse Proxy — Three Different Problems
These three tools often sit in the same place but solve different problems. A look at how static content, dynamic content, and traffic mediation get split among them.