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Great article.

I'm curious how people are deploying Go apps in production. Is it nginx+some app server?

(In other words what's to Go equivalent of nginx+unicorn or apache+passenger in the RoR world?)

I use nginx + upstart to keep my golang process up and running. When I asked about it on the golang irc channel, people said that they just use golang without a reverse proxy.

I personally like the ssl termination that nginx offers. I believe that nginx is a better way to load balance and I like not having to run my code as root, which using a reverse proxy provides you.

You can use capabilities to allow binding to port 80 without being root.

I've heard that before but never got around to trying it out. I should really take a look. Thanks.

Another alternative is authbind[0], which doesn't have the same drawbacks (i.e. you can use it with scripts, and still set LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authbind

I have an apache + reverse proxy for go servers running and listening on their specific port.

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