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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: NGINX Service Mesh with Alan Murphy
Description: NGINX is a web server that is used as a load balancer, an API gateway, a reverse proxy, and other purposes. Core application servers such as Ruby on Rails are often supported by NGINX, which handles routing the user requests between the different application server instances. This model of routing and load balancing between different application instances has matured over the last ten years due to an increase in the number of servers, and an increase in the variety of services. A pattern called “service mesh” has grown in popularity and is used to embed routin...