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It’s faster for non-colocated customers too weirdly I think cause connections can be reused more often. Cloud flare workers are really prone to doing a lot of TLS handshakes cause …

Thanks It’s totally fair criticism that the title and wording is a bit clickbaity But that’s ok

Yeah that’s fair

I cofounded it yeah And yeah you’re right in hindsight it was a terrible idea to begin with I thought it could work but didn’t benchmark it enough and didn’t plan enough. It all lo…

Oh we had it coming for quite some time and knew we would need to rebuild it, we just didn’t have the capacity to do it unfortunately. I was working on it on and off moving one end…

I doubt they literally said “perfect for low latency APIs” but their messaging is definitely trying to convince you that they’re fast globally, just look at the workers.ckoudflare.…

Not everyone is born with experience in distributed systems

I can assure you that was pretty close to the internal conversation lol Not sure what the different takeaways would be though?

We did initially but thought cloud flare was a better solution for scalability and latency. We believed their docs/marketing without doing extensive benchmarks, which is on us. The…

Author of that blog here, happy to answer any questions :)