[pgr0ss]

The broxy also adds more functionality, such as intelligent rate limiting by merchant (no one merchant can consume all of our backend app processes).

(Disclosure - I also work at Braintree)

[msherry]

We actually have much the same functionality. We can dynamically route/rate-limit requests on a per-marketplace (or anything else, really) basis, using Nginx's Lua integration capabilities. We may end up writing another post on this, if there's any interest from the community.

[rurounijones]

I think you can safely assume that any post along the lines of

"How we handle something <TECHNICAL> at balanced"

or

"How we handled <SITUATION> using <TECHNOLOGY> at balanced"

is of interest to this community.

No need to ask, get writing, hop to it! :)

[zwily]

Consider this an expression of interest from the community. :)

(We're planning on doing something similar in the future.)

[daemon13]

Nginx + Lua = YES, YES, YES, give us more... :-)

[sandGorgon]

this is quite interesting. please do elaborate more.