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"Load balancers, reverse proxies, and API gateways all sit between clients and backend servers. So what is the difference? A load balancer answers which server should handle this request. If your application runs on five servers, it distributes requests across them and stops sending traffic to unhealthy instances. Its main job is to balance traffic and keep the application available. A reverse proxy answers how should this request reach the backend. Clients connect to the proxy cache or compressed responses and routes different paths to different applications. It can also perform load balancing. But that's just one of its features. An API Gateway is designed specifically for APIs. It routes endpoints like users, orders and payments to the correct services while handling authentication, rate limiting, quotas, transformations, versioning and analytics. It may even combine responses from multiple services into one. A tool like Nginx can perform all three roles. The real difference is the"

"Load balancers, reverse proxies, and API gateways all sit between clients and backend servers. So what is the difference? A load balancer answers which server…