A New and Better Nagle Algorithm

Last year I wrote about the tradeoffs embedded in Nagle's algorithm. I also described our "AutoNagle" setting, which meant to take some of the pain out of figuring out what to do with this feature. B...
Published May 11, 2017
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May 15, 2017

This is a really great article, and I'm really glad you guys decided to implement this feature. I've worked for a number of companies that used F5 equipment, and only at one of them was there a good understanding of what Nagle's algorithm was, and only at that company did anyone attempt to correctly turn it on or off. Even still, a lot of the time we didn't have the time to try to figure out whether Nagle was beneficial for a given application, so we just defaulted to leaving it off, accepting that we'd not be optimized. Having this be handled automatically is great and should benefit almost everybody.