What is a Reverse Proxy? (vs. Forward Proxy) | Proxy servers explained

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0:00 Intro
0:29 What is a forward proxy?
1:32 Forward proxy use cases
3:36 How is a reverse proxy different?
5:24 Benefits of reverse proxy
5:30 Load Balancing
6:26 Version Upgrades
7:06 Protection from attacks
7:38 Application firewall
8:56 Global server load balancing (GSLB)
9:20 Caching
10:02 Compression
10:18 TLS encryption
10:57 Single IP different ports
11:20 A/B testing
11:36 Authentication

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