Wow, that's a lot of indirection! I've had the same setup, but only two requests deep. I think that if there's added value of each nginx tier (if each service h

Wow, that's a lot of indirection! I've had the same setup, but only two requests deep. I think that if there's added value of each nginx tier (if each service has static assets, for example), then there may be some benefit, but tracing through all the layers gets harder. Glad to hear you removed the internal layers!