John Nagle is a commenter here on HN, and has commented on this very thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10608356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1

John Nagle is a commenter here on HN, and has commented on this very thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10608356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10608356 I have also ran into this, but for me it was a periodic latency spike with steady but periodic messages. That latency spike went away when the messages were sent as-fast-as-possible.