Definitely, 90s tech sometimes is the right answer.. HTTP request compared to HTTPS is far less back and forth between the server and the client, and websockets

Definitely, 90s tech sometimes is the right answer.. HTTP request compared to HTTPS is far less back and forth between the server and the client, and websockets (I've used them) don't scale well into the super high concurrent connection counts (like more than 1 million) -- would love to know if there is an implementation that does? Or if its just implemented by lots of parallel servers each running like 100k websockets each?