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🚀 API Gateway vs Load Balancer vs Reverse Proxy — The Confusion(Until the Interview 😏)
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Imagine this.
You’re in a DevOps interview, all confident, sipping your imaginary coffee ☕ — and the interviewer drops the bomb 💣:
“Design a system for a mobile app that connects to 50 different microservices — authentication, data, identity, you name it — handling a million requests per day.”
And your brain goes:
“Ah, easy. We’ll use an API Gateway… or wait, maybe a Load Balancer? Or was it a Reverse Proxy?” 😵💫
Welcome to the chaos that every engineer has secretly faced but rarely admits.
Let’s fix that — with a fun airport analogy ✈️ (because who doesn’t like chaos with security checks?).
