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Nov 22, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
These benchmarks on @fastly's Compute@Edge vs Cloudflare workers are seriously flawed.The biggest problem is that they conflate network round trip time with “execution at edge” time. CF is measuring cherry-picked RTT instead of edge compute performance. From their blog: @fastly Our early numbers show @fastly’s Compute@Edge Rust implementation is much faster than Cloudflare’s published numbers for their JavaScript implementation. We will publish comparisons once we have enough data to be statistically significant, because that is kind of important.