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Load Balancing Explained: Layer 4 vs Layer 7 & Algorithms

October 3, 2026 By corginetwork Leave a comment

Load Balancing Explained: Layer 4 vs Layer 7, Algorithms, Health Checks, Nginx, HAProxy and Cloud Load Balancers Modern applications cannot rely indefinitely on a single server. A simple application may begin with: Internet │ ▼ Application Server But as traffic…

Reverse Proxy Explained: Nginx, Load Balancing, SSL & Security 2026

October 3, 2026 By corginetwork Leave a comment

Reverse Proxy Explained: Nginx, Load Balancing, SSL, Caching and Security Modern web applications rarely expose their application servers directly to the public internet. A production request commonly passes through several infrastructure layers before reaching the code responsible for generating a…