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Re:Monitoring latency: Cloudflare Workers vs Fly vs Koyeb vs... by mxstbr on Monday February 19, 2024 @03:53PM (#39434674)
I feel like this title is misleading compared to the original article. (cc @dang) Fly.io without cold starts (which is a one-line configuration change) is 2x faster than Cloudflare Workers.
Re:Monitoring latency: Cloudflare Workers vs Fly vs Koyeb vs... by dang on Monday February 19, 2024 @04:12PM (#39434883)
Ok, we've changed to the article's title now, in keeping with the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. (Submitted title was "Hono on Cloudflare Workers is 3x faster than alternatives")

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Re:Monitoring latency: Cloudflare Workers vs Fly vs Koyeb vs... by almost_usual on Monday February 19, 2024 @03:58PM (#39434733)
2x faster than Cloudflare Worker cold starts.
Re:Monitoring latency: Cloudflare Workers vs Fly vs Koyeb vs... by tibozaurus on Monday February 19, 2024 @04:03PM (#39434783)
But monitoring fly.io from fly.io is a bit biased
Re:Monitoring latency: Cloudflare Workers vs Fly vs Koyeb vs... by almost_usual on Monday February 19, 2024 @04:03PM (#39434790)
I’m surprised there is consistent high latency in JNB if they’re probing from JNB.
Re:Monitoring latency: Cloudflare Workers vs Fly vs Koyeb vs... by byyll on Monday February 19, 2024 @06:47PM (#39436260)
Isn't the whole point to not have a constant function running and waiting?
Re:Monitoring latency: Cloudflare Workers vs Fly vs Koyeb vs... by reissbaker on Monday February 19, 2024 @07:55PM (#39436771)
I think it depends on your use case. If you want serverless — well, yes! You want it to scale down to zero and scale up to infinity really fast. Cloudflare Workers are really good at that.

On the other hand, if you want lowest possible latency, and the ability to run normal Linux applications (rather than being confined to the Cloudflare Worker limits, e.g. maximum worker size is 10MB), something like Fly.io is pretty nice: it's even lower latency than Cloudflare assuming you keep the machines running, and scaling up/down is relatively quick although not something you'd generally be doing every few seconds.