The dumb proxy, as its name suggests, is a model without any kind of intelligence, where the only goal is to provide a single endpoint to facilitate the application clients and encapsulate direct access to the routes of microservices.
Therefore, in this strategy, we are delegating the requests to the correct places and providing the possibility of scalability and availability of microservices that are over the proxy.
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