I agree, the reverse proxies are becoming a bottle neck. Perhaps we need to team up and contribute it to nginx? It shouldn't be very hard unless their architect

I agree, the reverse proxies are becoming a bottle neck. Perhaps we need to team up and contribute it to nginx? It shouldn't be very hard unless their architecture really does not do persistent connections at all (they currently use HTTP 1.0 for requests to a backend) ... Do you have any experience with varnish ?