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Feb 18, 2026 · Backend Development

Why We Chose Go Over Python for Building an LLM Gateway

The Bifrost team replaced Python with Go for their LLM gateway, achieving roughly 700× lower latency, 68% less memory usage, and three‑fold higher throughput, and the article explains the performance bottlenecks of Python, Go’s concurrency model, deployment advantages, and future AI infrastructure trends.