I think a glib attempt at a tl;dr would be: > Sometimes "thundering herd" is a feature, not a bug. To expand: HTTP/1.1 naturally caused the latency of the Int

I think a glib attempt at a tl;dr would be: > Sometimes "thundering herd" is a feature, not a bug. To expand: HTTP/1.1 naturally caused the latency of the Internet to pace requests. A sort of implicit intrinsic rate limiting. HTTP/2 intentionally avoids that "problem" by batching/pipelining requests.