platform
Introducing BareProxy, the Reverse Proxy That Explains Itself
Most applications use a small part of nginx. They terminate TLS, route by host and path, spread requests over backends that are up, change config without dropping …
Version 0.1 Alpha: the core and nine modules
The reverse proxy that explains itself
BareProxy is a bare core with modules around it. The core does the part of nginx most applications use: TLS, routing, health checks, config changes that drop nothing, and a record of every request. It tells you why any request went where it did, and what a config change will do before it goes live. Caching, compression, rate limits and the rest are modules you add.
Under 5,000
Lines of Go in the core, a budget the project publishes and keeps
1 page
The whole config grammar
0
Dependencies from outside the Go project
9
Add-on modules, each optional; the core needs none of them
Design budgets for version 0.1. Speed and memory are measured against nginx, with the same routes, in the Alpha report.
Articles
config
How BareProxy Plan Shows What a Config Change Will Do Before It Goes Live
The riskiest moment in a proxy’s day is a config change. Cloudflare’s two outages at the end of 2025 both started with one that reached every server within …
tracing
One Record per Request: How BareProxy Tracing Works
Every request BareProxy handles gets a random ID, sent to the backend and back to the client in a BareProxy-Id header, and shown on every error page BareProxy writes. …
modules
BareProxy Modules: Nine Add-Ons Around a Bare Core
BareProxy Core does six things: proxying, TLS, routing, backend health, config changes and request tracing. Everything else is a module, compiled in only when you want …
security
Why BareProxy Routes on the Same Path It Forwards
Many proxy bypasses share one cause: the proxy reads a path one way and the application reads it another. A rule that blocks /admin/ does nothing if the request arrives …
Try it on your own config
Teams with an nginx config they'd like to shrink, or traffic they'd like to understand, can test BareProxy on their own setup. Write and say what you run today.