[dig1]

You will end up with proxy anyway. Don't tell me you expose your web apps to the public without any frontend protection?

[dvhh]

Even without thinking about protection, load balancing and/or redundancy is also of the vital to high performance application.

[KirinDave]

I didn't say you wouldn't have a proxy. I said you want to have as few as you possibly can for volume and redundancy, because they're a centralized point of failure in your architecture and they have to scale over your entire infrastructure.

I am certainly NOT advocating for their lack. I'm not even sure how that could realistically work.

[quickthrower2]

You can use just Nginx as a web server right? Used to do this when learning ruby. Not for prod code mind you.