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No Stupid Questions (Developer Edition)

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[–] Gnergy@piefed.europe.pub 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

In what context did you read this?

[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago
[–] Jeeve65@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you request data from a server, chances are that your server needs to request that data from another server - which is 'upstream'.

There can be multiple upstream servers involved in responding to your single request

[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

So, the fact that l'm using piefed, multiple servers are involved in responding to my request ??