Comment by RussianCow
2 days ago
You can do all of that without a proxy. Just store the current state in your database or a Redis instance.
2 days ago
You can do all of that without a proxy. Just store the current state in your database or a Redis instance.
and managed from among the application servers that are greedily trying to store/retrieve this state? Not to mention you'll have to be in the business of defining, updating and managing the schema, ensuring that upgrades to the db don't break the application servers, etc, etc. The proxy server is the right design decision if you are truly trying to build something production worthy and you want it to scale.