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IT'S ALWAYS TCP_NODELAY. EVERY DAMN TIME

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Nagle's algorithm, designed in the 1980s to reduce network overhead from small packets, often causes latency problems in modern distributed systems. This developer argues that TCP_NODELAY (which disables Nagle's algorithm) should be the default behavior on modern systems.