[tptacek]

Because it's much faster to build functionality in Rails than in Golang, and not every feature of an app has the same performance requirements.

[rapind]

I think jlhonora just means to proxy from nginx directly for the services that aren't powered by rails. Like 90% of the site served from rails and the high performance services are just different nginx backends.

Potentially what you're already doing.

[jlhonora]

Exactly

[tptacek]

Yep.