app: 600req/s
app + nginx: 20req/s -> 400req/s
that's going to feel great once deployed on m.s
turns out we may have no keepalive between proxies
if it looks too good the benchmark is probably broken
it was broken
forgot the "X-Forwarded-Proto: https" so my non-proxied measurement was just measuring a redirection to https 🤦♀️