Slow start is irrelevant in the context of a CDN. Cloudflare is like a bunch of people suddenly realized what every CDN in the world with a dynamic acceleratio

Slow start is irrelevant in the context of a CDN. Cloudflare is like a bunch of people suddenly realized what every CDN in the world with a dynamic acceleration product does, but then they blog about as if it's all magic and unicorns. Every DSA provider maintains persistent connections to origin nodes. Every DSA provider runs a custom multiplexing protocol between the first and last mile POPs on their network. Nothing here is new. The only moderately interesting thing about this is that they're sending X bytes instead of Y bytes once every 60 seconds. Meh.