Today another peer, who is 20 years younger, is retirering. I am looking in the mirror asking what is wrong with me? But there is still so much to be done, so much innovation around the corner. Us engineers have the most amazing jobs, we can create new meaningful things every day
HTTP Keep-Alive can cause TCP race conditions 🤯
Ok, it happened again... Hence, the diagram!
In a (reverse_proxy + app_server) setup, the reverse proxy should be dropping connections more frequently than the app server. Otherwise, clients will see sporadic HTTP 502s.
Why? 🔽