What's inside net/http? Late binding in the Go standard library

This post delves into the internal workings of Go's `net/http` client, specifically its connection pooling and 'late binding' mechanism. It highlights how the client races to either establish a new connection or retrieve an idle one from a pool, aiming to minimize roundtrip latency. This concept of 'late binding' is directly compared to a similar mechanism used in Cloudflare's Railgun, demonstrating a shared engineering principle for optimizing connection management and performance across different systems.