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Production traffic rarely travels directly from a client to an application server. A request typically passes through several network layers responsible for finding the service, selecting healthy capacity, terminating connections, and routing the request to the correct backend .

CDNs, reverse proxies, and application caches all reduce repeated work, but they operate at different locations and understand different parts of a request. A CDN serves users from geographically distributed edge locations, a reverse proxy protects and accelerates origin infrastructure, and an appli