Quite right. Compression over TLS, although useful, is frowned upon for the reasons you state. I'm normally the sort of guy who puts everything behind HAProxy,

Quite right. Compression over TLS, although useful, is frowned upon for the reasons you state. I'm normally the sort of guy who puts everything behind HAProxy, I may still do that for convenience (certs in the same place etc) but imagine moving to a point where I put the Go programs behind, but in TCP mode.