Most engineering teams hit a ceiling at ~200k TPS for Go microservices before blaming "language limits"—but with Go 1.24’s improved GC and scheduler, 1M TPS is achievable for I/O-heavy workloads with the right optimizations. We’ll walk through a real-world example that went from 182k TPS to 1.12M TPS with zero hardware changes.

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Key Insights

Go 1.24’s new GOGC=off\ mode reduces GC pause latency by 62% for high-throughput workloads compared to Go 1.22

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