Snapshots vs Backups

What is a snapshot? A snapshot is an image of your system/volume at a specific point in time. Snapshots and snapshotting technology is available on many enterprise technology systems e.g. Vmware. What...

API Gateway

What is an API Gateway? An API Gateway is a API management tool that sits between a client and a bunch of backend APIs. Its primary role is to act as a...

What is a CDN?

A content delivery network (CDN) is a bunch of servers distributed across the world which work together to provide fast delivery of internet content. Why use a CDN? Performance Research from fastly...

Load Balancing for Beginners

What is Load Balancing? Let’s imagine we have a web application on a server (web server) that’s working fine for 100 users. Users simply go to fabapp.com to access this hypothetical web...

Proxy Server Explained

A proxy server is just a computer configured in a special way. Using a proxy is just like asking another computer(the proxy) to get the web site you wanted for you. That’s...