Building Nginx From Scratch - Part 2
I am building Nginx from scratch in Go, from first principles.
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In this episode, I continue the reverse proxy build by adding the pieces that make request forwarding and routing feel more like real infrastructure.
The goal is not to clone Nginx perfectly. The goal is to understand the machinery under the abstraction: reading requests, deciding where they should go, forwarding them upstream, and sending responses back to the client.
Coming next:
load balancing
hot config reloads
upstream health checks
retries and timeouts
observability