Building a Transparent Proxy in Rust: The Foundation Behind Lens When debugging...
Building a Transparent Proxy in Rust: The Foundation Behind Lens
When debugging distributed applications locally, understanding how requests move between services can be surprisingly difficult.
A single request may involve an API server, authentication service, database, cache, and external APIs. Reconstructing that path often means piecing together logs from multiple places.
That's the motivation behind Lens, an open-source Rust project I'm building.
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