I also read that Fastly is slower at specific point of times during a week, slower for free test accounts, slower at executing javascript (hence the switch to rust), and slower in locations carefully selected by CloudFlare.
I'm not saying that the benchmark from CloudFlare is fair, but it's a bit funny that their response contain a "let's switch to rust" or "let's benchmark next to our datacenters".
I mean they switched to Rust because a comparison of two fully developed systems is fairer than a production system and one in testing. Besides, I believe the blog post said that they selected nodes at actual random?
I'm not saying that the benchmark from CloudFlare is fair, but it's a bit funny that their response contain a "let's switch to rust" or "let's benchmark next to our datacenters".