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Smart Placement speeds up applications by moving code close to your backend — no config needed

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Date Published
Author
Michael Hart, Serena Shah-Simpson, Tanushree Sharma
Word Count
1,286
Company Posts That Month
46
Language
English
Hacker News Points
4
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No
Summary

Cloudflare has announced Smart Placement for Workers and Pages Functions, a new feature that automatically moves compute resources to optimal locations in order to speed up applications. The feature is currently available in open beta for all Workers and Pages customers. Smart Placement aims to help developers build faster applications by reducing the number of network round-trips made between users and backend services such as databases or APIs, particularly when those services are not located near the end user. This will be achieved through automatic analysis of fetch requests made by Workers in real time, comparing them against latency data aggregated by Cloudflare's network to determine the best location for each request. The goal is to minimize overall request duration and improve application performance.

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