While NGINX is famous as a reverse proxy - distributing incoming traffic to backend servers like Puma or Uvicorn, it can also function as a forward proxy (also known as an outbound proxy).
Insights, tutorials, and updates about outbound proxy services and static ips
While NGINX is famous as a reverse proxy - distributing incoming traffic to backend servers like Puma or Uvicorn, it can also function as a forward proxy (also known as an outbound proxy).
Over the last 5 or 10 years there's been a shift in the tech world (especially here in Europe) where the question of infrastructure ownership and data protection finally became important and couldn't be ignored any longer.
If you've ever tried to integrate your SaaS with an external API - Stripe, Github, Koyeb, Scalway, AI agents, Kubernetes, MCP servers - you've probably hit the same wall I did: