I’m 100% with you. Beyond making coffee and integrating systems I don’t have much else (family aside). Sure, I can throw up databases and virtual servers for days, reroute packets and secure connections like its second nature (been doing it for decades), but I feel kind of done with it.

Maybe one day I can sell my house and open a feed store or lawn mower repair shop in the middle of nowhere, but I don’t see a career change that doesn’t involve a complete reset.

Umm… Not sure if you are serious but knowledge is meant to be shared so… A reverse proxy isn’t really for convenience, it sits between two networks and proxies traffic according to specific rules. It also has the benefit of masking the origin server a bit (like its IP) and in a lot of cases can be used as a way to ensure traffic going to a server or service that doesn’t support transport encryption actually transverses the internet within a secure tunnel.

At least we are more likely to hear about them than we would for PMS. Quickest way to find vulnerabilities is to have as many eyes as possible on it, if you only let the 20 devs you employ look a lot can be missed. Just my opinion though.