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Nginx vs Caddy vs Traefik in 2026 — I Ran All Three Under Real Production Load (5 minute read)
A logistics company running ingress-nginx on EKS conducted a six-week comparison of three reverse proxies (F5 Nginx, Caddy, and Traefik) handling 35,000-61,000 requests per minute across 12 microservices, ultimately selecting Traefik because it saved an estimated 6 hours per month in operator time despite using 11% more memory. The evaluation revealed that Traefik's Kubernetes-native approach reduced route configuration from 23 minutes with Nginx to 4 minutes, though a misconfigured timeout annotation during cutover caused an 8% error rate spike until corrected.
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