Surprised none of the big clouds have duplicated the handshake delay thing yet - CF is noticeably better at cold starts than the rest for small scripts. I guess the big cloud functions are aimed at bigger workloads perhaps
While I really appreciate Workers platform "eleminated cold starts" advertising was always bothering me.
This is a curl request from my machine right now to SSR react app hosted on CF Worker:
```
DNS lookup: 0.296826s
Connect: 0.320031s
Start transfer: 2.710684s
Total: 2.710969s
```
Second request:
```
DNS lookup: 0.002970s
Connect: 0.015917s
Start transfer: 0.176399s
Total: 0.176621s
```
Maybe a hot take, but if you're that concerned about cold starts, you probably shouldn't use a service that scales to zero. If your service is really not used that heavily, it's like $5-10/month for an instance that can handle more than your traffic needs 24/7, hell you can even host other similarly unused services on it!
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 18.8 ms ] threadThis is a curl request from my machine right now to SSR react app hosted on CF Worker: ``` DNS lookup: 0.296826s Connect: 0.320031s Start transfer: 2.710684s Total: 2.710969s ```
Second request: ``` DNS lookup: 0.002970s Connect: 0.015917s Start transfer: 0.176399s Total: 0.176621s ```
2.5 seconds difference.