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by procaryote 312 days ago
This might be one of those induced demand situations like building more lanes on a highway, which generally makes traffic worse.

The actual limiting factor for how horribly bloated frontend code becomes is that at some point, it becomes so bad that it noticably impacts your business negatively, and you need to improve it.

Increasing the TCP window so it managed at least the basic asset delivery makes sense, but if you need to cold start regularly and you have hundreds of kb of javascript, perhaps fix your stuff?