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0 pointsjgrahamc2y ago0 comments

I don't think your characterization of why Railgun was deprecated is accurate. From the blog post you link to:

“I use Railgun for performance improvements.”

Cloudflare has invested significantly in performance upgrades in the eight years since the last release of Railgun. This list is not comprehensive, but highlights some areas where performance can be significantly improved by adopting newer services relative to using Railgun.

Cloudflare Tunnel features Cloudflare’s Argo Smart Routing technology, a service that delivers both “middle mile” and last mile optimization, reducing round trip time by up to 40%. Web assets using Argo perform, on average, 30% faster overall.

Cloudflare Network Interconnect (CNI) gives customers the ability to directly connect to our network, either virtually or physically, to improve the reliability and performance of the connection between Cloudflare’s network and your infrastructure. CNI customers have a dedicated on-ramp to Cloudflare for their origins.

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Scaevolus2y ago

Right, but isn't that part of the general trend of bandwidth becoming far cheaper in the last decade along with dynamic HTML becoming a smaller fraction of total transit?

A 95%+ reduction in bandwidth usage for dynamic server-side-rendered HTML is much less important in 2023 than 2013.

Twirrim2y ago

Unless you're part of the large majority of people in the world on slower mobile networks. We keep designing and building for people with broadband / wifi, and missing out just how big the 3G / lousy latency markets are.

jgrahamcOP2y ago

I think it's related to the size of the Cloudflare network and how good its connectivity is (and our own fibre backbone). But on the eyeball side bandwidth isn't the only game in town: latency is the silent killer.

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