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93% FASTER NEXT.JS IN (YOUR) KUBERNETES

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Watt made Next.js 93% faster in K8s (182ms → 11.6ms) by ditching PM2's ~30% IPC tax and letting the Linux kernel distribute connections directly via SO_REUSEPORT. Traditional approaches aren't great because PM2 adds coordination overhead, and single-CPU pods can't self-heal when their event loop gets blocked.