Edge Computing with Cloudflare Workers
Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers

Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers

7/30/2020 · Ashcon Partovi

What this post added

Introduced an optimization to eliminate cold starts for Cloudflare Workers by leveraging the TLS handshake process. When the first packet of a TLS negotiation (ClientHello) is received, the Workers runtime is hinted to eagerly load the associated Worker. This pre-warming during the handshake ensures that the Worker is ready to execute code immediately upon request arrival, achieving zero cold start latency.

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