Learn How to Lower Heroku Dyno Latency through Persistent Connections (Keep-alive)

The Performance Penalty of Repeated Connections Before the latest improvements to the Heroku Router, every connection between the router and your application dyno risked incurring the latency penalty of a TCP slow start. To understand why this is a performance bottleneck for modern web applications, we must look at the fundamentals of the Transmission Control […] The post Learn How to Lower Heroku Dyno Latency through Persistent Connections (Keep-alive) appeared first on Heroku .