Another argument in favor of running NGINX in front of a Go webserver is that Golang's web server doesn't do any compression by default. It's possible to add i

Another argument in favor of running NGINX in front of a Go webserver is that Golang's web server doesn't do any compression by default. It's possible to add in Go via a middleware but it's very simple to configure in NGINX. Also, NGINX's C implementation of compression should be faster than a pure Go implementation.