Yes, maintainability, ease of porting code, and ease of hiring knowledgeable workers do matter, and so does performance.
I hope Fastly stops calling things "cold starts" that aren't [1].
And, I think Cloudflare could do a quick find-and-replace on that article [2] to change "Fastly’s Compute@Edge" to "Fastly’s JavaScript on Compute@Edge". A phone call between friendly CEOs probably would have sufficed for that.
We all want to be on the same page when making these comparisons. Some may choose Fastly and write in Rust, some will choose Cloudflare and write in JavaScript.
I hope Fastly stops calling things "cold starts" that aren't [1].
And, I think Cloudflare could do a quick find-and-replace on that article [2] to change "Fastly’s Compute@Edge" to "Fastly’s JavaScript on Compute@Edge". A phone call between friendly CEOs probably would have sufficed for that.
We all want to be on the same page when making these comparisons. Some may choose Fastly and write in Rust, some will choose Cloudflare and write in JavaScript.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29465729#29468068
[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/network-performance-update-full-...