Submitted, because I just found out that even after 28 years, the definition of "upstream" and "downstream" is still heavily contested.
> Umm, no. Fix the Envoy proxy terminology so that it isn't obviously wrong.
> Umm, no. Fix the Envoy proxy terminology so that it isn't obviously wrong.
upstream/downstream
Upstream and downstream describe the flow of a message: all messages flow from upstream to downstream.
Now HTTP is obviously bi-directional but since for most reverse proxy usecases responses far outweigh the requests upstream means "the backend"