Simplifying a Four‑Layer TCP Proxy in Go: From Custom Goroutine Loops to io.Copy
The article recounts the original complex implementation of a four‑layer TCP proxy in Easegress, explains why using separate read/write goroutines and custom buffers caused error‑handling and flow‑control difficulties, and then shows how switching to Go's io.Copy (and its variants) dramatically simplifies the code while preserving performance through zero‑copy techniques.
