[spyspy]

I’ve always just used go’s built in reverse proxy if I need an API gateway. You can adapt it to meet any specific need, easily find libraries to do common tasks (CORS, rate limiting, retries, etc), and the best part: no configuration language. You just write go.

[hellcow]

I did the same thing. After some bad downtime from Traefik introducing breaking changes in a point release, I decided to write my own.

My reverse proxy offered a service mesh, live config reloads, managed TLS certs, and automatically rerouted traffic around down services. The whole thing was a few hundred LOC anyone could understand in its entirety. It ran in production for years unchanged and never caused an outage.

[jimmyl02]

curious what are the performance characteristics here? I would assume something like Nginx that has been optimized over a longer period of time / a more specific use case would have non-negligible performance benefits at scale?

[spyspy]

Not everything needs to be at “scale”. I’ve deployed this pattern over 10k req/sec but it’s all about your SLOs. I’ve (thankfully) never needed to lose sleep over a millisecond or 2 in my line of work.