We did the same. We've replaced nginx/lua with a cache server (for video) written in Golang - now serving up to 100 Gbit/s per node. It's more CPU and memory efficient and completely tailored to our needs. We are happy that we moved away from nginx.

Wow ... 100 Gbit/s. Where do you work? That’s some serious traffic.

A german company building an app for watching linear TV. Netflix is actually serving 400Gbit/s per node and already have 800Gbit/s ready.

I think we can scale our setup up to 200 Gbit/s but we are too small. Total traffic is ~2 Tbit/s.

Most challenging is the missing support of QUIC/http3 and KTLS in Golang. Also 100G NIC supply chain is difficult. We use NVIDIA Connect-X 6, but it's impossible to get a version with TLS offloading.

There is quic-go[1] but i don't think that it's sufficiently optimized[2-4] to be used for this kind of workload. caddy will use it to provide HTTP/3 by default[5] in the upcoming 2.6.0 release.

[1]: https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go [2]: https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go/issues/2877 [3]: https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go/issues/2607 [4]: https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go/issues/341 [5]: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/4707