Isn't this pretty much a proxy, and like how nearly production environment on the web works? I don't see how this is any different than using Nginx or Apache in

Isn't this pretty much a proxy, and like how nearly production environment on the web works? I don't see how this is any different than using Nginx or Apache in-front of your "server." IMHO, if the application is waiting for request to be initiated by a client, and then fulfills the request to the client, it's a server. The networking topology is really something totally different...