I feel like this title is misleading compared to the original article. (cc @dang) Fly.io without cold starts (which is a one-line configuration change) is 2x faster than Cloudflare Workers.
Ok, we've changed to the article's title now, in keeping with the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. (Submitted title was "Hono on Cloudflare Workers is 3x faster than alternatives")
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I think it depends on your use case. If you want serverless — well, yes! You want it to scale down to zero and scale up to infinity really fast. Cloudflare Workers are really good at that.
On the other hand, if you want lowest possible latency, and the ability to run normal Linux applications (rather than being confined to the Cloudflare Worker limits, e.g. maximum worker size is 10MB), something like Fly.io is pretty nice: it's even lower latency than Cloudflare assuming you keep the machines running, and scaling up/down is relatively quick although not something you'd generally be doing every few seconds.
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