TonyBai

Apr 27, 2026 · Industry Insights

Why Render Sticks with Go and Never Plans to Rewrite Its Load Balancer in Rust

The article dissects Render's claim that its Go‑based load balancer processes over 150 billion requests monthly, why the team sees zero reason to rewrite it in Rust, and how this debate reveals deeper engineering trade‑offs between Go's simplicity and Rust's performance, especially at massive scale and in the AI era.