As someone who doesn't have a programming background who is just starting to dabble in it this year, your videos have been excellent! You make it so light and easy and doesn't feel condescending and pretentious, and explaining it in a way that is easy to understand without any big scary words! Thank you so much!
this channel is underrated, u do great job of explaining concepts that have 200 pages of docs and leave me flabergasted in 15 min, common how is this not geting utube hits.
Thank you appreciate it!! 😊 I have missed so many concepts in this video just to simply the topic. I made so many videos about proxies and there are still so many concepts that I didn’t cover.
I have been binge-watching your videos for the past 3 days 😂 So much information and I can't get enough of it! Thank you so much for these educational videos 💪
Hello Hussein. Your content is outstanding and as a currently front end engineer, it helps a lot explaining all these back end terms in an ELI5 perspective. Keep up the great work. Cheers
My god man... I have been trying to come up with a decent way to understand proxies at all, much less reverse proxy and this FINALLY made it click! Thank you so much!
I am having so much fun binging all your videos. Before your videos I had this fog in my brain and I could not imagine the web in my mind fully but now with your indepth explanation, I have a much more grounded knowledge and I can even research further in the topics I could not understand, so yeah thanks man, I appreciate the knowledge.
Cheers Hussien, your videos are fantastic ( simplifying complex content using not only effective communication but also topping it up with excellent animation .. very Refreshing) . God Bless you Man , please keep up the good work.
Thank you for the clear illustrations. I'm a visual learner and I really appreciated them. I love illustrations/diagrams. Forward Proxy and Reverse Proxy in general don't seem like the best terms but perhaps when they were created it made sense within the initial context. Either way, good stuff. Subscribing!
Great to hear! I Agree with you on the terminology I never liked them, but I got used to the terms now without thinking much about it appreciate it and welcome to the community enjoy the content.
For visual learners I must say it would be better if you could have some visible pointer like sometimes the mouse pointer gets lost in the contrast colors and it gets a bit difficult which "this" "this" you're pointing to. 😅 Well, excellent work Hussein, Thanks for the content.
Thank you for the helpful videos. I have always wanted to know deeper things about Backend Engineering and never found such relevant content. I have also started reading your Medium articles and I hope to become a better Engineer. You sir, give me hope 🙏
Gosh... just found Hussein's channel serching for some explanation about Nginx. This video and the 2018 one are amazing! I can even feel the emotion through this complex theme, easy to follow explanations and examples. And, of course, the visual material became *awesome*. Good job friend!
Hey, I watched many of your videos. Really like the way you explain the concepts. Hats off and thank you very much. Having said that , In this video I just felt “Reverse proxy “ as a topic is not clear to yourself like me
@@hnasr I like them also! What distracts me is the moving circles... Maybe is just me but I'd prefer static circles and just follow your mouse over. As always, great video! Thanks a lot
You are learning Kubernetes, and you are expecting to understand one concept, reverse proxy; voila, this video will not only tell you about reverse proxy also tells its use cases in the Kubernetes environment. The video exceeded the expectations.
Damn man U are good to me when it comes to backend developement, i mean i tried googling stuffs and watch other video but ur this one video helped understand ingress and load balancing and other stuff about networking i was having doubts about while dockerising my simple application for learning process. Man just plain amazing. i wish to work with someone u in my future carrer of full stack development
At 13:20 you refrain from using the word "tunnels" for HTTP proxies, I wonder anything wrong with saying "http proxy only 'tunnels' traffic for http" ??
Can we say in proxy, the client is aware it communicates through a proxy server to the destination. While in reverse proxy the client assumes the proxy is the destination.
Shouldn’t security be included as one of the main features of a reverse proxy? The situation when you want to hide the addresses of your internal servers behind the reverse proxy so they the end user can’t contact the servers directly, only through proxy? Also blocking requests from specific IP?
:) IMHO Reverse proxy is 2nd thing every engineer should learn right after learning Ansible. :) I agree that most of the advertised VPNs are garbage. :) The only VPN i use is the one i personally set up to connect to my clients internal network to manage their network and devices. I personally currently use HAProxy at home, but mentally leaning towards Istio/Envoy because i am slowly migrating into service mesh. One important point of reverse proxy is ability to secure your perimeter by implementing HTTP/2 at the edge. So you don't need (BUT YOU SHOULD) to care about all that certificate mess at applications level. Basically proxy, can handle security of all your traffic. No matter do you run WordPress, Postfix, Jenkins or any other externally exposed application. All you need is an proxy and single wildcard Let'sEncrypt TLS.
I am a network guy and a random recommendation got me to this wonderful video. Good to refresh some of the tech terms I always forget. Can you please let me know what software/app you are using to make those video Hussein? The animation is too good :)
How does ssl proxy work .. certificates are from server to client.. wondering what role the proxy can play when the negotiation for SSL has happened end to end. Does all SSL proxy terminate the TLS if not then kindly explain how ..
Thank you for these videos! They are really great and helpful to learn. Trying to wrap my head around this concept, I know this is probably an oversimplified statement, but could you say that a machine could be identified as a Proxy if it is placed in front / handles routing (or headers, etc.) of a machine making a Request, while a reverse-proxy is placed in front / handles routing of a server issuing a Response ?
First of all, thank you for this great video! Second, as I know, proxy doesn’t provide tunneling option, and it’s the difference between vpn and proxy , but you explained tunneling while explaining proxy. Could you please clarify it for me?
Really great video, learning so much. I have a question, on some specific servers we need to set proxies to access web content, so I know now that setting proxy now allows my requests to go through them which is then served to me but why am I not able to access any content without the proxy, is it because some kind of local certificates that is checked which is used when relaying the content through proxy or is there some other mechanism at play here?
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If there's an ISP's Proxy and Google's reverse proxy would be there, the client doesn't know the actual server and the server doesn' know the actual client. Is that right?
That is correct, google reverse proxy will see the ISP proxy (assuming its not transparent) . And the client only know google frontend reverse proxy. Unless of course the ISP proxy forwards the client ip through headers
Your content is awesome as usual. This animation on content slide is something that caught all my attention, this time. What tool have you used, can you share the template :)
“Reverse proxy is the ‘reverse’. it’s very confusing - I know”. You’re the only one to call out the elephant in the room re: the naming format. The name format is a curveball to the true meaning behind the 2 terms.
Hi Hussein, Another great video and quality content. I also always get confused between both when I started my industry journey to till today special due to proxy now being used with Kubernetes as side-car containers and reverse proxy outside of pods for load balancing. Can you make video about things like Linkered, NGNIX Ingress, Istio, Envoy etc. Regards, Ratnadeep
No they can’t since the content is encrypted between you as a client and Netflix. (End 2 End) your ISP can’t see what you are watching so they can’t cache it
@@jivanmainali1742 You can search a bit about how CDN works to understand video streaming. Also you can capture some data on wireshark to understand encryption a bit.
ubaid shahid thanks! Yeah I made a couple Fail-over and High-Availability (Explained by Example) th-cam.com/video/Zgy1miPsTNs/w-d-xo.html Setup Active-Passive Cluster with Keepalived & HAProxy (Two raspberry pis) th-cam.com/video/NizRDkTvxZo/w-d-xo.html Active-Active vs Active-Passive Cluster Pros & Cons th-cam.com/video/d-Bfi5qywFo/w-d-xo.html
I think only the reverse proxy can be bidirectional since it terminals the traffic it can send information unsolicited back to the client. Proxy can't do that
I completely agree. When you think of Proxy outside of the technical arena, if some one or something acts as a proxy, it’s really a reverse proxy if you use the technical jargon. At least they way I’ve always understood it.
Sir, please make a video on how to set up a tunnel to the local network in case of a Carrier Grade Nat which blocks all inbound requests from the Internet ....... This would benefit a large group of people who want remote access to their own pc without begging their Local ISP for a static IP or for opening ports. In my case, I have been banging my head trying to figuring how to get things to work on Plex and Emby Media Server.
@@hnasr Less motion/moving graphics to be specific. It takes so much of the attention of the viewer. Nice tutorial. :D By the way, can you share with me some tips for reverse proxy for my college project (making a software or web/mobile application that uses reverse proxy) or share some your experience using it ?
make your mouse cursor little bit bigger while recording video for youtube so that it will be easier to follow your mouse cursor. Make a light colr cursor
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As someone who doesn't have a programming background who is just starting to dabble in it this year, your videos have been excellent! You make it so light and easy and doesn't feel condescending and pretentious, and explaining it in a way that is easy to understand without any big scary words! Thank you so much!
I love the way you teach, humble, fun and very informative
Alan Raftel thanks Alan ! I am really happy you are enjoying the content and style . 🙏
@@hnasr tow question, you're looking for anonymity, what should you use? Second, is it possible to build your own proxy and how difficult is it?
this channel is underrated, u do great job of explaining concepts that have 200 pages of docs and leave me flabergasted in 15 min, common how is this not geting utube hits.
Thank you appreciate it!! 😊 I have missed so many concepts in this video just to simply the topic. I made so many videos about proxies and there are still so many concepts that I didn’t cover.
I have been binge-watching your videos for the past 3 days 😂 So much information and I can't get enough of it! Thank you so much for these educational videos 💪
Thanks Striker! I am happy you are enjoying the content! 🙏
Hello Hussein. Your content is outstanding and as a currently front end engineer, it helps a lot explaining all these back end terms in an ELI5 perspective.
Keep up the great work.
Cheers
Whenever I have some free time, I open up one of your videos. Always learned a lot. Thanks!
fen1x_ thank you for watching and leaving a comment ❤️
Found a vid of yours by coincidence and I must agree with the rest of the ppl, the way you deliver the message is different from others, good job!
when I watch your videos, I am always enlightened about how much I have learn more than the content you have to offer
My god man... I have been trying to come up with a decent way to understand proxies at all, much less reverse proxy and this FINALLY made it click! Thank you so much!
I came looking for copper and I found gold... thank you for the quality content 👌👍
I am having so much fun binging all your videos. Before your videos I had this fog in my brain and I could not imagine the web in my mind fully but now with your indepth explanation, I have a much more grounded knowledge and I can even research further in the topics I could not understand, so yeah thanks man, I appreciate the knowledge.
I am watching ur videos from last few weeks, all Your content is really unique, and technically rich.
Rahul Das thanks Rahul! Glad you like the content
Cheers Hussien, your videos are fantastic ( simplifying complex content using not only effective communication but also topping it up with excellent animation .. very Refreshing) . God Bless you Man , please keep up the good work.
Thank you for the clear illustrations. I'm a visual learner and I really appreciated them. I love illustrations/diagrams. Forward Proxy and Reverse Proxy in general don't seem like the best terms but perhaps when they were created it made sense within the initial context. Either way, good stuff. Subscribing!
Great to hear! I Agree with you on the terminology I never liked them, but I got used to the terms now without thinking much about it
appreciate it and welcome to the community enjoy the content.
For visual learners I must say it would be better if you could have some visible pointer like sometimes the mouse pointer gets lost in the contrast colors and it gets a bit difficult which "this" "this" you're pointing to. 😅
Well, excellent work Hussein, Thanks for the content.
Same here 😅
Thank you for the helpful videos. I have always wanted to know deeper things about Backend Engineering and never found such relevant content. I have also started reading your Medium articles and I hope to become a better Engineer. You sir, give me hope 🙏
Gosh... just found Hussein's channel serching for some explanation about Nginx. This video and the 2018 one are amazing! I can even feel the emotion through this complex theme, easy to follow explanations and examples. And, of course, the visual material became *awesome*. Good job friend!
Henrique Komura thanks Henrique for the kind words!! Glad you like the content 😊
These videos are so useful to refresh your understanding / memory.
It is an amazing video. The way you have taught the concepts and the visuals you have used combined gives an amazing output.
Nidhi Patel thank you Nidhi!! Appreciate it glad you enjoyed the content 🙏
Hey, I watched many of your videos. Really like the way you explain the concepts. Hats off and thank you very much. Having said that , In this video I just felt “Reverse proxy “ as a topic is not clear to yourself like me
I like this icons, there are much better to remember Use Cases :)
Thanks 😊 took me a while to do them am a terrible designer
@@hnasr I like them also! What distracts me is the moving circles... Maybe is just me but I'd prefer static circles and just follow your mouse over. As always, great video! Thanks a lot
you made things simple because btw it is ! the way you teach, THE BEST
thanks a lot
You are learning Kubernetes, and you are expecting to understand one concept, reverse proxy; voila, this video will not only tell you about reverse proxy also tells its use cases in the Kubernetes environment. The video exceeded the expectations.
Thank you Hussein, you did a great job 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Damn man U are good to me when it comes to backend developement, i mean i tried googling stuffs and watch other video but ur this one video helped understand ingress and load balancing and other stuff about networking i was having doubts about while dockerising my simple application for learning process. Man just plain amazing. i wish to work with someone u in my future carrer of full stack development
You don't need to animate if it takes a good chunk of your time. Your explanations are good enough with static icons even.
You have a really engaging style. Great vid, thanks!
At 13:20 you refrain from using the word "tunnels" for HTTP proxies, I wonder anything wrong with saying "http proxy only 'tunnels' traffic for http" ??
5:15 this is gold. In the reverse proxy, the client doesn't know the final destination
Thanks!
Thanks for the support!
Can we say in proxy, the client is aware it communicates through a proxy server to the destination. While in reverse proxy the client assumes the proxy is the destination.
Great improvement in quality
Shouldn’t security be included as one of the main features of a reverse proxy? The situation when you want to hide the addresses of your internal servers behind the reverse proxy so they the end user can’t contact the servers directly, only through proxy? Also blocking requests from specific IP?
Thank you for the update, excellent examples
:) IMHO Reverse proxy is 2nd thing every engineer should learn right after learning Ansible. :)
I agree that most of the advertised VPNs are garbage. :)
The only VPN i use is the one i personally set up to connect to my clients internal network to manage their network and devices.
I personally currently use HAProxy at home, but mentally leaning towards Istio/Envoy because i am slowly migrating into service mesh.
One important point of reverse proxy is ability to secure your perimeter by implementing HTTP/2 at the edge. So you don't need (BUT YOU SHOULD) to care about all that certificate mess at applications level. Basically proxy, can handle security of all your traffic. No matter do you run WordPress, Postfix, Jenkins or any other externally exposed application. All you need is an proxy and single wildcard Let'sEncrypt TLS.
Agree! A very critical thing for engineers 👩💻 to know
It was interactive and very light even then the explanation looked detailed. I wanted to refresh few facts. Really nice watching it. 😉
Shubham yadav thank you Shubham!! Appreciate it. I might have put too many animations 😅
Insightful video, keep it up!
Great content, very clear and simple. Thank you
Hello Hussein, What are the most relevant HTTP header values for a proxy? Server, Date, Content-type, Expires or Last-Modified?
I am a network guy and a random recommendation got me to this wonderful video. Good to refresh some of the tech terms I always forget.
Can you please let me know what software/app you are using to make those video Hussein? The animation is too good :)
Thanks Nikhil! Appreciate your comment, and welcome to the channel 🙏
I use canva to do the animation
How does ssl proxy work .. certificates are from server to client.. wondering what role the proxy can play when the negotiation for SSL has happened end to end. Does all SSL proxy terminate the TLS if not then kindly explain how ..
Thank you for these videos! They are really great and helpful to learn. Trying to wrap my head around this concept, I know this is probably an oversimplified statement, but could you say that a machine could be identified as a Proxy if it is placed in front / handles routing (or headers, etc.) of a machine making a Request, while a reverse-proxy is placed in front / handles routing of a server issuing a Response ?
First of all, thank you for this great video! Second, as I know, proxy doesn’t provide tunneling option, and it’s the difference between vpn and proxy , but you explained tunneling while explaining proxy. Could you please clarify it for me?
Really great video, learning so much. I have a question, on some specific servers we need to set proxies to access web content, so I know now that setting proxy now allows my requests to go through them which is then served to me but why am I not able to access any content without the proxy, is it because some kind of local certificates that is checked which is used when relaying the content through proxy or is there some other mechanism at play here?
Informative, thanks.
Great content! My new favorite channel!
Thanks Antoni 😍😍
Thanks for all the amazing content, Hussein. A video on Traefik would be nice.
Wayne this is one of the most requested topic! I need to prioritize it! Thank you 😊
so is spring cloud gateway a type of reverse proxy ingres use case ?
I am in love with this channel !!
Great video. Just a question. Can a reverse proxy machine go down because of say a DDoS attack? If yes can we have a backup reverse proxy machine?
Amazing tutorials, it makes sense
You are amazing explaining!
Thank you much..... you create really great videos.......
Thanks, great examples!
Great video. Thanks
Good explanation. What tool did you use to create the video?
Animesh Gupta hey I used Canva 🙏
@hussein Nasser: could please give difference between canary and A/B testing ??
Thank you, how did you make your animation? It's just SO helpful
So does it means all the Loadbalancers implements reverse proxy architecture?
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If vpn doesn’t give full anonymity, what does or is full anonymity possible?
Great video with easy to understand explanations!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the video!
wow!! great content, great explanation.. super clear!!! thanks!
excellent as always
Thank you! Cheers!
Cool animations very valuable information
thanks i love your teaching
The image is king!
This video is excellent, thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love you bro you are my true mentor
i love this youtube channel
If there's an ISP's Proxy and Google's reverse proxy would be there, the client doesn't know the actual server and the server doesn' know the actual client. Is that right?
That is correct, google reverse proxy will see the ISP proxy (assuming its not transparent) . And the client only know google frontend reverse proxy.
Unless of course the ISP proxy forwards the client ip through headers
Your content is awesome as usual.
This animation on content slide is something that caught all my attention, this time.
What tool have you used, can you share the template :)
watching his videos since 2k subs..
Amazing content. Thankssss!!!!!!!!
“Reverse proxy is the ‘reverse’. it’s very confusing - I know”. You’re the only one to call out the elephant in the room re: the naming format. The name format is a curveball to the true meaning behind the 2 terms.
Hi Hussein,
Another great video and quality content. I also always get confused between both when I started my industry journey to till today special due to proxy now being used with Kubernetes as side-car containers and reverse proxy outside of pods for load balancing.
Can you make video about things like Linkered, NGNIX Ingress, Istio, Envoy etc.
Regards,
Ratnadeep
Thanks ! Yes Service Mesh is on my agenda
RFC number for forward proxy? 👀
12:07 Google Trust Services does not look so trusty!
As always very informative for me. Sir can you please upload videos on load balancing
Thanks Ali! Check out my load balancers playlist Load Balancing & Proxies th-cam.com/play/PLQnljOFTspQVMeBmWI2AhxULWEeo7AaMC.html
i have a Irrelevant question : whats your slides maker software?😅
Can ISP cache private contents or subscription based contents like Netflix web series and serve to anyone?
No they can’t since the content is encrypted between you as a client and Netflix. (End 2 End) your ISP can’t see what you are watching so they can’t cache it
@@hnasr plz make a video on how do we achieve those with video packets
@@jivanmainali1742 You can search a bit about how CDN works to understand video streaming. Also you can capture some data on wireshark to understand encryption a bit.
Can you suggest some books to learn about proxy and reverse proxy? Can't afford web courses might find books for free :)
Nice video, Did you make video on HA(High Availability), like VM level HA, or microservice level HA.
If not kindly make a video on it.
ubaid shahid thanks! Yeah I made a couple
Fail-over and High-Availability (Explained by Example)
th-cam.com/video/Zgy1miPsTNs/w-d-xo.html
Setup Active-Passive Cluster with Keepalived & HAProxy (Two raspberry pis)
th-cam.com/video/NizRDkTvxZo/w-d-xo.html
Active-Active vs Active-Passive Cluster Pros & Cons
th-cam.com/video/d-Bfi5qywFo/w-d-xo.html
Can you tell which is bidirectional? Proxy or rproxy?
I think only the reverse proxy can be bidirectional since it terminals the traffic it can send information unsolicited back to the client. Proxy can't do that
I don’t feel like reverse proxy name is the best descriptive name
Benito Camelas I agree with you. I wish we came up with a better name
I completely agree. When you think of Proxy outside of the technical arena, if some one or something acts as a proxy, it’s really a reverse proxy if you use the technical jargon. At least they way I’ve always understood it.
Please how do I become a member. I can't access some content. Thanks for your response.
Try this link th-cam.com/channels/_ML5xP23TOWKUcc-oAE_Eg.htmljoin
Sir, please make a video on how to set up a tunnel to the local network in case of a Carrier Grade Nat which blocks all inbound requests from the Internet ....... This would benefit a large group of people who want remote access to their own pc without begging their Local ISP for a static IP or for opening ports. In my case, I have been banging my head trying to figuring how to get things to work on Plex and Emby Media Server.
cloud service service i have a video on SSH tunneling coming soon that might help you achieve this
@@hnasr Thank you, Sir.
Thanks for sharing
thanks for this videos
proxy block list is static? so a bad guy can just make another fake server?
Hey Hussein Great tutorial (as always)!
I would suggest using less graphics :)
Thanks Law 😊 doing some experimenting 🧪 with graphics.. I guess I went too far lol , will sure make my life easier without them! Appreciate it.
@@hnasr Less motion/moving graphics to be specific. It takes so much of the attention of the viewer. Nice tutorial. :D By the way, can you share with me some tips for reverse proxy for my college project (making a software or web/mobile application that uses reverse proxy) or share some your experience using it ?
you are the best..
Can VPN be an example of proxy
Thank you so much
My first thought: What’s the difference between proxy and a VPN gateway?
reverse proxy is badass trully
make your mouse cursor little bit bigger while recording video for youtube so that it will be easier to follow your mouse cursor. Make a light colr cursor
It seems as though it is time to follow the pattern and make a new version of the video.