Nginx vs Traefik vs Caddy: Which Reverse Proxy Should You Pick?

Introduction Choosing a reverse proxy is one of those decisions that seems trivial until you're debugging TLS certificate renewals at 2 AM or trying to figure out why your service discovery isn't propagating. If you're running microservices, your reverse proxy is the front door to everything - and picking the wrong one can cost you weeks of configuration headaches. Here, we'll do a hands-on comparison of the three most popular reverse proxies in the modern DevOps stack: Nginx , Traefik , and Cad