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Envoy proxy quietly powers thousands of major websites
Original: Behind the big sites sits a proxy most people never hear about. About 31,000 sites in the index answer with Envoy, the t
Roughly 31,000 sites in a web index respond using Envoy, the open-source proxy that manages traffic for cloud-native infrastructure. The number looks small next to giants like Nginx or Apache, but the sites behind it are serious, high-traffic operations. Developers are highlighting how this load balancer has become standard equipment at major companies even though it stays largely invisible to the public.
Why now: Developers are sharing infrastructure statistics showing Envoy's significant footprint among high-traffic sites.
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Evidence
- Behind the big sites sits a proxy most people never hear about. About 31,000 sites in the index answer with Envoy, the traffic cop for the cloud-native crowd. Small count, serious company. cl0q.com/site/envoypr... #webdev #internet #servers · cl0qsearch.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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