Frederic Branczyk
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Frederic Branczyk
@brancz.com
Founder polarsignals.com 🧊 ❄️ Building parca.dev, Prometheus maintainer. Distributed systems, databases, and performance engineering. Actually born in Berlin. (he/him)
Yes, it looks like that. When I started noticing issues, the status page hadn't been updated yet. Uff, they've been having a rough time.
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I hear cpu and motherboard prices are expected to increase soon as well fyi
November 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Someone on our team bought 192gb for just under $600 a few months ago 😭
November 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Omg same, so frustrated with memory processing that I gave up after all.
November 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Not exactly the same thing but we’ve been creating jobs from sql databases for some time with this github.com/brancz/locutus
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November 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
It only works out to be beneficial if each request is relatively large, which happens to be the case for our product.
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It’s somewhat specific to what I want to do. I want to route the same customer’s traffic to the same zone in GCP. Within that zone I run a load balancer infra structure myself with eg. nginx. Ingress traffic itself is free on cloud providers. So I use workers as my global load balancer.
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Back of the envelope says we'd be ~40% less with Cloudflare workes. Interesting! Probably not enough to warrant the change at the moment, but good exercise.
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I have to do some calculations, but Cloudflare workers could be interesting!

developers.cloudflare.com/workers/plat...
Pricing
Workers plans and pricing information.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
No no, the target directory holds build caches etc. as well. The binaries are still big though (100mb without and 1gb with debuginfos each).
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I see, never heard of the term. In that case, no not at all. These binaries depend on libc and Linux more generally a lot.
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
What do you mean by free standing binaries?
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM