he egress gateway between the application and the external MongoDB, but enabling mutual TLS and then adding the SNI proxy caused a degradation in the throughput of about 10% and 24%, respectively.</p><h3 id=response-time>Response time</h3><p>The average response times for the different requests were collected when traffic was being driven with 20 clients. The chart below shows the average, median, 90%, 95% and 99% average values for each case:</p><figure style=width:75%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-rat