Oh, it’s worse than that, it’s not garden variety “make jimmy fall in love with me” magic; it’s “call forth the daemon spirit of Fourier to transform the spectral flux into symbols for the sacred converter to interpret via the MCS scrolls into a cursed message posting to kbin…”
Historically, reverse proxies were invented to manage a large number of slow connections to application servers which were relatively resource intensive. If your application requires N bytes of memory per transaction then the time between the request coming in and the response going out could pin those bytes in memory, as the web server can’t move ahead to the next request until the client confirms it got the whole page.
A reverse proxy can spool in requests from slow clients, when they are complete, then hand them off to the app servers on the backend, the response is generated and sent to the reverse proxy, which can slowly spool the response data out while the app server moves onto the next request.
Would you like to attend a lemon party?
Hold my nose and pick the minimum harm candidates.
Steve Jobs had to die before AAPL paid dividends.
Relevant as always
It’s probably also the kind of fancy glass you can get to go foggy on command (hopefully it’s fail foggy, i.e. needs a small charge to be clear) so that when you latch the door the stall becomes private.
The trick is getting the lightning into the rocks first…