> With HTTP, the connection is held for as long as the network roundtrip then goes back to the pool. • Keep-Alive has entered the chat • HTTP pipelining popped

> With HTTP, the connection is held for as long as the network roundtrip then goes back to the pool. • Keep-Alive has entered the chat • HTTP pipelining popped in • Connection multiplexing has entered the room • Web Sockets pokes head in • Server-Sent Events chimes in as well And yes, again, the connection model for thousands or millions of disparate IPs from the Internet will obviously be different from resources acting on a network within a closely controlled datacenter. You claim to know all this but seem to gloss over these important points.