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by omcnoe 462 days ago
The primary benefits of QUIC apply in scenarios where you have some packet loss, and are multiplexing multiple independent "transactions" (DB queries, HTTP req's, gRPC calls etc.) over a single connection.

Multiplexing is very common but unless you are at megacorp scale (or operating a cloud hosting platform) packetloss within your own wired network infrastructure isn't a super common issue. Compared to say packetloss to mobile clients on bad networks where QUIC can really provide a significantly improved experience.