Layer 7 Reverse Proxy

Technically, the only mode on a load balancer that is a real Reverse Proxy is Layer 7 mode. Whereas all Layer 4 load balancing modes such as NAT, DR and TUN are nothing like a reverse proxy. The clients are effectively talking directly (transparently) to the backend servers...

Hardware marketing execs get very excited about the fact that their product can magically scale your application by using ‘amazing Layer 7 technology’ in the load balancer such as cookie inserts and tracking/re-writing...