![An abstract illustration to an article explaining the differences between load balancers and reverse proxies.](https://deploy.equinix.com/media/blog/images/15d4e891d784977cacbfcbb00c48f133/oU0z-bloghow.load.balancers.differ.from.reverse.proxies.and.when.to.use.each_600.webp)
How Load Balancers Differ From Reverse Proxies, and When to Use Each
While reverse proxies do balance loads, they do a lot more than that, and there are often good reasons to use both.![An abstract illustration to a blog post titled "How to Speed Up and Secure Your Apps Using DNS Load Balancing"](https://deploy.equinix.com/media/blog/images/a8abb4bb284b5b27aa7cb790dc20f80b/qptM-bloghow.to.speed.up.and.secure.your.apps.using.dns.load.balancing_600.webp)
How to Speed Up and Secure Your Apps Using DNS Load Balancing
It’s a low-cost way to improve scalability of web apps that requires no additional hardware and can be effective for orgs of all sizes.![What Load Balancers Do at Three Different Layers of the OSI Stack](https://deploy.equinix.com/media/blog/images/ddb30680a691d157187ee1cf9e896d03/BeyR-blogwhat.load.balancers.do.at.three.different.layers.of.the.osi.stack_600.webp)
What Load Balancers Do at Three Different Layers of the OSI Stack
Understand load balancing methods at each of the layers and what to keep in mind when deciding which type of load balancer to deploy for your infrastructure.![Pingball](https://deploy.equinix.com/media/blog/images/18997733ec258a9fcaf239cc55d53363/AVYP-blogpingball_600.webp)
Pingball
You know that Netflix, Spotify, Meta, YouTube and so on all have data centers storing content. You know that “cloud” is a thing. (Perhaps you even deploy and run applications in the cloud!) But how does a video that lives in a cloud data center somewhere in the middle of the high desert in Oregon end up on your phone in Oakland? How does it get there so fast? Pingball is a journey through the vast, endlessly fascinating physical infrastructure that’s become a vital organ of our entire civilization.![How API Gateways Differ from Load Balancers and Which to Use](https://deploy.equinix.com/media/blog/images/248e844336797ec98478f85e7626de4a/HnQI-bloghow.api.gateways.differ.from.load.balancers.and.which.to.use_600.webp)
How API Gateways Differ from Load Balancers, and Which to Use
Get a deeper understanding of what these essential technologies behind web services do, and how and when they can be used together.![Latency and Throughput, Your Network’s Vital Signs](https://deploy.equinix.com/media/blog/images/6ecbdd6ec859d284dc13885a37ce8d81/abN7-blogunderstanding.network.performance.latency.vs.throughput_600.webp)
Latency and Throughput, Your Network’s Vital Signs
Analyzing these two metrics is the first step in making sure you’re using all the bandwidth that’s available to you.![How to Build Network Services in the User Space](https://deploy.equinix.com/media/blog/images/faa9afea49ef2ff029a833cccc778fd0/OUuP-bloghow.to.build.network.services.in.the.user.space_600.webp)
How to Build Network Services in the User Space
Why we decided to process packets outside the OS kernel and what we’ve learned doing it.![How Not to Lose (Most of) Your Packets](https://deploy.equinix.com/media/blog/images/f85454e8279be180185cac7d243c5eb3/Ysjf-bloghow.to.deal.with.packet.loss.in.your.cloud.network_600.webp)
How Not to Lose (Most of) Your Packets
Packet loss in cloud networks, what causes it and how to keep it under control in a distributed application.![Demystifying Networking for Developers](https://deploy.equinix.com/media/blog/images/b6f0479ae87d244975439c6124592772/eWKD-blogdemystifying.networking.for.developers_600.webp)
It Isn’t Magic, It’s TCP: Demystifying Networking for Developers
How the Transmission Control Protocol works in the OS kernel to push packets to the right place and in the right order.![Locking Down Your Cloud Network: The Basics](https://deploy.equinix.com/media/blog/images/a96b65a721e561e1e3de768ac819ffbb/oFLh-bloglocking.down.your.cloud.network.the.basics_600.webp)
Locking Down Your Cloud Network: The Basics
How to avoid exposing your enterprise network to the internet and other cloud network security best practices.![In a Hybrid-Cloud World, Network and Security are One](https://deploy.equinix.com/media/blog/images/46ba9f2a6976570b0353203ec4474217/XjJO-blogan.introduction.to.sase_600.jpg)
In a Hybrid-Cloud World, Network and Security are One
Explaining SASE and its power to enable today’s distributed, heterogeneous IT environments.![Rearchitecting a Global Connected-Car Network](https://deploy.equinix.com/media/blog/images/7f100b7b36092fb9b06dfb4fac360931/ioAn-blogrearchitecting.a.global.connected.car.network_600.jpg)