[dcow]

> If I didn't state upfront that I was the tech lead of Workers, someone would (rightly) call me out for astroturfing.

I think the nuance is that you are presenting yourself as someone with responsibility/authority/control over the subject of these benchmarks. As a comparison, consider wording that skirts taking up that mantle:

Full disclosure, I work for Cloudflare, but ...

Not trying to be argumentative and really don't have any hostile feelings or intent. I understand where you're coming from.. just providing my outside take on how the interaction appears. You're within your right to defend your product. Nobody seems to have a problem with that. But you also decided to throw mud on the pile, metaphorically. You admitted you aren't plugged into the back and forth, that's fine. But this isn't news for Fastly and it's hard to take your side in this discussion when your solution is "go do your own tests" which is exactly what Fastly is would like to do. They clearly call attention to your ToS preventing them from doing that in the piece we're discussing here.