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2026-07-29 21:39
I made my Go reverse proxy 3.8x faster by fixing one line
I made my Go reverse proxy 3.8x faster by fixing one line
I've been building a reverse proxy in Go. Not a hello world one, something meant to sit in production, in the actual path of every request, doing real work on each one before forwarding it along.
For a while I didn't think much about its raw throughput. It worked, requests came in, got processed, got forwarded, came back. Then I actually ...