Cloudflare and Vercel can't stop fighting

A detailed analysis of the ongoing public feud between Cloudflare and Vercel, examining the technical and business reasons behind their conflict. The dispute centers around edge computing reliability issues, where Cloudflare's free and pro tiers route 10-70% of US traffic to Europe during peak hours, causing significant latency problems for Vercel's customers. Additionally, Cloudflare's DDoS protection layer interferes with Vercel's own security systems by stripping important traffic data. The conflict escalated from technical incompatibilities to personal attacks between executives, with both companies engaging in bad faith public communications that damage their professional reputations.