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Cloudflare Connect 2025 Highlights: Common & Company
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And to prove it, they showed this benchmark in which they were doing a lot of math.sign, you know, trigonometry operations. And for some reason in this test, it ran three times faster on Cloudflare than on Bracel. And they said, ha ha. And then another YouTuber that's better known named Theo, the independent developer and YouTube personality, took issue with that, rightly so, and came up with his own set of benchmarks, which were designed to simulate CPU intensive workloads, which is actually not what most people are doing on either of these platforms. Usually, you're spending most of your time waiting for network communications, talking to your database, and so on, and not spending a lot of CPU time rendering a result. But for the purpose of this test, point was to measure raw JavaScript execution time. And he came up with a bunch of benchmarks. And in those benchmarks, it appeared to be that Cloudflare was slower by as much as like 3, 3.5x. … And to do this with takes a little while to spin up a container, and then you have to like, try to reuse it for things. But once you're reusing a sandbox, then you have to worry about is any data leaking between the different uses. And so it's a lot more expensive that way. And that's a wrap.
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Sandbox reuse complexity and data isolation concerns
6Reusing containers/sandboxes in serverless platforms requires worrying about data leaking between different uses, adding complexity and cost to the implementation.
Cloudflare benchmark discrepancies and performance variance
5Cloudflare's published benchmarks showing superior performance were contradicted by independent testing, with third-party benchmarks indicating Cloudflare could be 3-3.5x slower for CPU-intensive JavaScript workloads, raising questions about real-world performance claims.