I will take the advice provided the day I deploy a Go app that prints a single static string to the stream. In other words, absolutely never.

This is the core problem with such benchmarks - that 'overhead' quickly becomes proportionally irrelevant when you're actually doing something worth doing. But with Nginx in front, suddenly you have so much flexibility without reinventing the wheel, including load balancing, mixing server technologies with ease, not dealing with static junk in your go code, proxy caching (recently used this to really good effect with a Go service, putting zero caching in the Go code and instead using standard http expiration headers to allow Nginx to do the magic), anti-DOS, streaming compression, security, SPDY, and on and on.

As fair disclosure, I have written on this before - http://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2013/08/07/ten-reasons-you-...