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Re:Traits of Serverless Architecture by JMTQp8lwXL on Monday August 19, 2019 @09:04PM (#20743037)
I'm not referring to Cloudflare. There are many other FaaS providers, e.g., Zeit's Now. It's true that cold boots are more probable for low-traffic sites. If your function recently ran, it's unlikely for a subsequent execution to be a cold boot.

But it could be luck of the draw that Google's crawler hits your site during a period of low traffic, and your functions have to cold boot. That could impact page rankings, as response times influence those.

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Re:Traits of Serverless Architecture by robocat on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:37AM (#20745379)
> I'm not referring to Cloudflare

Why would you use a slow provider for a comparison point?

> and your functions have to cold boot

For $5 per month, it looks like you get warm startup always on CloudFlare, which is very fast.

Also: Google surely pay some attention to network delays: serving Kenya from a Mombasa POP is going to be way faster than using some server in the US. I would expect Google to give that some juice.

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