[bertjk]

I like the basic technical idea behind Backplane, which is that your backend servers "dial-out" and connect to the edge load balancers. Does anyone know why this technique is not used more? Or is it actually common but I just haven't heard of it? If so who/where is it actually done this way?

[ithkuil]

(shameless plug) you might find this interesting: https://github.com/bitnami-labs/udig

It focuses on Zero configuration by skipping the account creation and hostname selection (and long term state) by using the hash of the tunnel destination public key as hostname.

[tony101]

> "your backend servers 'dial-out' and connect to the edge load balancers"

I believe Cloudflare offers this as an option: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/argo-tunnel/

[mrkurt]

I love the idea of app servers tunneling out (we have an OSS project that does similar: https://github.com/superfly/wormhole). I really hope we get to where that's the default.

[VectorLock]

I like it as well. It seems like it would provide significant improvements in latency and failing-faster.

[germainelong]

Why not just use nginx and zerotier?