Latency Is Political When You Live Far from the Center
Latency is usually described as a performance metric. From the edge of the network, it starts to feel more like a power relationship: a reminder of who gets to live close to the...
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Cloudflare is one of the most consequential companies on the internet and one of the least discussed outside operations circles. These posts treat it as the infrastructure layer it is. I write about Workers and the shift of compute to the edge, the way a single company now sits in front of a staggering share of web traffic, and the implications of that concentration for resilience, censorship, and control. The pieces here also get practical: routing, caching, DDoS mitigation, and the developer experience of building on a platform that is simultaneously a CDN, a registrar, a DNS provider, and a compute runtime. Cloudflare is fascinating because it is useful and concerning for the same reason. It is everywhere.
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