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Use UDP ;)



Too many applications end up reinventing TCP or SCTP in user-space. Also, network-level QoS applied to unrecognized UDP protocols typically means it gets throttled before TCP. Use UDP when nothing else will work, when the use-case doesn't need a persistent connection, and when no other messaging or transport library is suitable.


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