The original title is "Reverse Proxy vs Load Balancer vs API Gateway: The Real Difference"

Short summary

A detailed explainer distinguishing reverse proxies, load balancers, and API gateways—three edge-layer components often confused. Reverse proxies handle SSL termination, caching, compression, and server IP anonymity. Load balancers add intelligent traffic distribution across multiple servers with health tracking. API gateways layer on business-logic concerns like auth, rate limiting per user, and API versioning.

• •Reverse proxy offloads SSL, caching, compression, and hides backend IPs
• •Load balancer specializes in intelligent traffic distribution and health checks
• •API gateway adds business-logic routing: auth, versioning, per-user policies

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