“Chromium’s WebSocket implementation would fragment it into 24 separate WebSocket frames.”
Recall.ai was piping raw video between processes on the same machine over WebSocket. The p99 bot pushed 150MB/s through a protocol that masks every byte with an extra pass over the data. Dropping it cut bot CPU by up to 50% and the AWS bill by over $1 million a year. Amazon was happy to bill for the convenience the whole time.