Vue · Remote · Postmortem: how we exhausted the connection pool in vue-remote

Short version: vue-remote needs almost no tuning at small and medium scale — the point where it starts to hurt is much further out than most people assume. Full measurements below.

Worth noting: the official docs do cover this, just in a very inconspicuous spot. I only found it reading the source comments, where the author explains the reasoning — roughly "so that it degrades into predictable behaviour in extreme cases".