Cloudflare says benchmarks are often distorted by vendor pressure
irvinebroque · x · 2026-07-24
The post argues that many benchmarks are unreliable because vendor pressure can skew results.
It also notes that Cloudflare likes having a concrete target to optimize against, since performance and security are core to its business, and teases a few more optimizations coming soon.
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