Cloudflare Origin Range Requests cut R2 p99 latency in half
Anyone serving large files through R2 or another origin behind a CDN has likely wrestled with cache rules to keep partial requests from triggering full-file fetches. Cloudflare now handles that coordination at the cache layer, so teams can drop custom range-handling workarounds. The Pingora-based redesign also signals how Cloudflare is evolving its proxy internals.