How I Built a Custom Kubernetes Ingress in Rust/Go That Outperforms Nginx by 11%
Abdullrahman Eissa
How I Built a Custom Kubernetes Ingress in Rust/Go That Outperforms Nginx by 11% Silex: Re-engineering K8s Edge Routing for the Cloud-Native Era The Pain Point: The Heavy Burden of Legacy Ingress In modern cloud-native architectures, we often accept unnecessary complexity as a default. When deploying standard enterprise ingress controllers like Nginx into a lightweight cluster, several architectural inefficiencies immediately become apparent: Image Bloat and Cold Starts: The container footprint