The overhead of a reverse proxy in terms of latency is essentially zero. Just think about it like this: with HTTP sometimes you need to wait for some extra pack

The overhead of a reverse proxy in terms of latency is essentially zero. Just think about it like this: with HTTP sometimes you need to wait for some extra packages to go back and forth. These packages need to travel over the Internet. You can trade in these packages with packages, which travel though your loopback device. Seems like a good bargain to me. Also to make benchmarks, it helps to have a working product first.