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If you think that any CDN doesn’t have performance variations, you’re going to be sorely mistaken.

There’s a reason that many sites that require efficient content delivery have many different CDNs and optimize between them. Well, there are many reasons. But one of them is QoS.

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The only time I have seen someone use multiple CDNs was for live video content delivery. Can you name any other sites which have multiple CDNs? Excluding JS CDNS which people use for convenience..

Fair point -- almost all of the use cases I can think of revolve around delivery of streaming content.

But I think they're also probably the users most likely to drive performance variations too

I think the opposite is true: Video content delivery is not very sensitive to latency and even live content has a little bit of buffering. The raw network throughput capability of the CDN in the region of the clients is more important.

My biggest issue with this is it comes across as desperate, defensive, and whiny.

Fastly would do better to go on the offensive and prove their worth rather than complain about everything a competitor says.

Fastly could have picked a bad Cloudflare hour and do their own countertest.

For a product named Compute@Kintergarten?

The article outlines

- Cloudflare doesn't strictly allow benchmarking - Thus fastly compared against Cloudflare's own metric and numbers

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