Inside Agoda’s Storefront: A Latency-Aware Reverse Proxy for Improving DNS Based Load Distribution

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Agoda's Storefront is a latency-aware reverse proxy for improving load distribution in large-scale object storage systems

advanced Published 27 Mar 2026
Action Steps
  1. Implement a reverse proxy to address DNS-based distribution limitations
  2. Use latency-aware routing to optimize request routing
  3. Apply cross-data-center optimizations to improve performance
  4. Implement IO safeguards to prevent overload
  5. Use credential-less authentication for secure access
Who Needs to Know This

DevOps and software engineering teams can benefit from Storefront's ability to improve load balancing and request routing, while also enhancing observability across large-scale object storage systems

Key Insight

💡 Latency-aware routing can significantly improve load distribution and request routing in large-scale object storage systems

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🚀 Improve load distribution with Agoda's Storefront, a latency-aware reverse proxy for large-scale object storage systems

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Agoda's Storefront is a latency-aware reverse proxy for improving load distribution in large-scale object storage systems

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Agoda engineers developed Storefront, a Rust-based S3-compatible reverse proxy that improves load balancing, request routing, and observability across large-scale object storage systems. The proxy addresses DNS-based distribution limitations, implements latency-aware routing, cross-data-center optimizations, IO safeguards, credential-less authentication, and exposes te
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