Topic
Performance
21 posts · Newest first
-
Who needs 50MB query results from D1
Questions on who queries 50MB results from a database capped at 10GB, how they deliver it, and why, after D1 announced a result size limit.
-
Most of my issue tracker is slow API responses
A full issue tracker turns out to be mostly slow API response timings, likely from over-engineered queries, useless joins and unneeded data.
-
Upgrading Bitcoin Core from 27.0 to 32.1
What changed between Bitcoin Core 27.0 and 32.1: AssumeUTXO on mainnet, a 1GB default dbcache, and parallel block input fetching for faster initial sync.
-
Bun fmt formats 320x faster than Prettier
Bun ships a formatter benchmarked 320x faster than Prettier and 2x faster than the nearest rival, a farewell to Prettier.
-
Approve hit counts look unreal
Approve.so October traffic jumps well past the prior daily pace, and the spike looks worth debugging.
-
Cloudflare KV Instant pricing and tradeoffs
Notes on KV Instant’s fast reads versus steep per-MB storage and per-operation Class A costs.
-
Wrangler tunnels are faster on Cloudflare WARP
A Wrangler tunnel over WARP shaves about 50 ms versus the direct BOM path.
-
CDN Accept negotiation returned WebP instead of AVIF
An Accept: image/avif request wrongly got WebP until the CDN began sending AVIF first.
-
Has the Rust server moved into production?
A question for 37signals after their Basecamp outage, noting reported Rust rewrite gains of over 50x.
-
LoomUp server response timings
A breakdown of LoomUp's sub-millisecond stages, with most of the remaining 80 ms blamed on the DEL-BLR trip.
-
LoomUp without the Cloudflare proxy
Removing Cloudflare's proxy cuts LoomUp reused-connection latency under 85 ms, with cold starts still near 300 ms.
-
Approve hits a million requests
Approve.so crosses one million September hits across assets, push, sockets, and CRUD, with AI next.
-
Cutting API response time by over a second
WaitUntil accounting, fewer D1 round trips, and Smart Placement reclaim more than a second per request.
-
Node.js rewrites in Rust to outdo Bun
A short take that Node.js can rewrite itself in Rust and still beat Bun.
-
Project TC image quality and D1 row counts
Image delivery now accepts quality 10–100, and D1 row reads will ship as a response header.
-
A 4.94 GB database copy in 70 seconds
A schema-change workflow hits a snag while copying and verifying an existing database.
-
Saving 100 TB of RAM across a fleet
A quick appreciation of saving 100 TB of RAM across a fleet.
-
Questioning three million requests in a day
Investigating whether excessive crawling or unoptimized network calls explain a surprising request count.
-
43 requests per second and a 341 ms p95
Checking CPU usage, request throughput, and latency as a backend project grows.
-
Three million daily requests on my Rust server
Comparing a custom Rust server’s growing request volume with Cloudflare Workers pricing.
-
Cloudflare makes domain searches feel instant
Comparing Cloudflare’s fast domain availability results with earlier Namecheap searches.