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Diagram comparing a layer 4 connection forwarder and a layer 7 HTTP proxy in front of backend servers
Infrastructure & Networking

Cloud Load Balancers Explained: Layer 4 vs Layer 7

Almost every cloud load balancer is one of two things: a connection forwarder that never reads your traffic, or a…

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