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Cloudflare "splits" their reverse proxies functionally into different processes; TLS termination may happen in a different process from WAF, or cache access, or origin fetch. I'm sure other large CDNs do similar things.

As others have said, "processing layers" in contemporary network service architecture don't align that well with OSI layers anymore, though.



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