diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 09b5406..ddf4112 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 Revision history for Perl extension AnyEvent::RabbitMQ
 
+        - Add "nodelay" option to disable Nagle's algorithm.
+          https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=119793
+          Also José Micó's e888205306fb49167c0dc9aa4e4dc940cc922d25.
         - Assign a version number to all modules in package.
 
 1.21 Sat 30 May 23:40:54 BST 2020
diff --git a/dist.ini b/dist.ini
index e9b4109..297915f 100644
--- a/dist.ini
+++ b/dist.ini
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ x_contributors = Masahito Ikuta <cooldaemon@gmail.com>
 x_contributors = Rod Taylor <rod.taylor@gmail.com>
 x_contributors = Carl Hörberg <carl@cloudamqp.com>
 x_contributors = Julio Polo <julio@hawaii.edu>
+x_contributors = A.J. Ragusa <aragusa@globalnoc.iu.edu>
+x_contributors = José Micó
 
 [InstallGuide]
 [CPANFile]
diff --git a/lib/AnyEvent/RabbitMQ.pm b/lib/AnyEvent/RabbitMQ.pm
index 81a3ebd..3488045 100644
--- a/lib/AnyEvent/RabbitMQ.pm
+++ b/lib/AnyEvent/RabbitMQ.pm
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ sub connect {
                 peername => $args{host},
                 $args{tls} ? (tls => 'connect') : (),
                 $args{tls_ctx} ? ( tls_ctx => $args{tls_ctx} ) : (),
+                $args{nodelay} ? ( nodelay => $args{nodelay} ) : (),
             );
             $self->_read_loop($args{on_close}, $args{on_read_failure});
             $self->_start(%args,);
@@ -690,6 +691,7 @@ AnyEvent::RabbitMQ - An asynchronous and multi channel Perl AMQP client.
       tls        => 0, # Or 1 if you'd like SSL
       tls_ctx    => $anyevent_tls # or a hash of AnyEvent::TLS options.
       tune       => { heartbeat => 30, channel_max => $whatever, frame_max = $whatever },
+      nodelay    => 1, # Reduces latency by disabling Nagle's algorithm
       on_success => sub {
           my $ar = shift;
           $ar->open_channel(
diff --git a/xt/04_anyevent.t b/xt/04_anyevent.t
index 9cc0289..fc7b0e9 100644
--- a/xt/04_anyevent.t
+++ b/xt/04_anyevent.t
@@ -42,6 +42,35 @@ lives_ok sub {
     $ar->load_xml_spec()
 }, 'load xml spec';
 
+my @nagle = [[], [nodelay => 0], [nodelay => 1]];
+
+for my $opt (@nagle) {
+    my $done = AnyEvent->condvar;
+    my $z = AnyEvent::RabbitMQ->new(verbose => $conf{verbose});
+    $z->connect(
+        (map {$_ => $conf{$_}} qw(host port user pass vhost)),
+        timeout    => 1,
+        on_success => sub {
+            my $ar = shift;
+            isa_ok($ar, 'AnyEvent::RabbitMQ');
+            $done->send;
+        },
+        on_failure => failure_cb($done),
+        on_return  => sub {
+            my $method_frame = shift->method_frame;
+            die "return: ", $method_frame->reply_code, $method_frame->reply_text
+              if $method_frame->reply_code;
+        },
+        on_close   => sub {
+            my $method_frame = shift->method_frame;
+            Carp::confess "close: ", $method_frame->reply_code, $method_frame->reply_text
+              if $method_frame->reply_code;
+        },
+        @{ $opt },
+    );
+    $done->recv;
+}
+
 my $done = AnyEvent->condvar;
 $ar->connect(
     (map {$_ => $conf{$_}} qw(host port user pass vhost)),