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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:16PM (#28993847)
A lot of people liked the keyboard
That must be because of an excessive amount of caching on the client-side
Cloudflare can be difficult at times.

I am in New Zealand and a company I worked for used Cloudflare and we found out that our site was being served from Japan most of the time (8800 km away). This meant a request would go: Auckland -> Japan -> Sydney (our data center)

The fix was to upgrade to their $200/mo plan and we found we would be served from AKL or SYD most of the time, occasionally still Japan.

Re:WeWork sells Meetup on Monday March 30, 2020 @11:29PM (#22734696)
If only it wasn't US only