System Design Patterns: From Fundamentals to Real Systems
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Reverse Proxy

1. The Pattern

A server that stands in front of your real servers. It receives every request, handles the boundary work, and forwards the request onward. Clients never talk to your application servers directly. They talk to the proxy.

An application server connected directly to the internet must manage TLS certificates, which provide HTTPS encryption and prove server identity, while also serving images and JavaScript beside business logic and publicly exposing its address and internal topology.

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