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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 (webserver) that’s working fine for 100 users. Users simply go to fabapp.com to access this hypothetical web application....
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...
What’s the difference between a program, an application and software?
Program A computer program is a list of instructions that tell a computer what to do. A computer program in computer readable form is called machine code. Machine code is binary, a...