# Harris Hancock - Eliminating Cold Starts 2: Shard and Conquer (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com/zkvhlag99gkb/36zgbRBXR8to15vj1SitXt/246b41b1a312172ca67aa235120918fa/Eliminating_Cold_Starts_2-_shard_and_conquer-OG.png) ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/61942503) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Harris Hancock]] **Full Title**:: Eliminating Cold Starts 2: Shard and Conquer **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **Document Tags**:: #work **URL**:: [blog.cloudflare.com](https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-cold-starts-2-shard-and-conquer/) **Host**:: [[blog.cloudflare.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2026-07-09]] **Created**:: [[2026-07-11]] ## Highlights - In that episode, we introduced a technique to pre-warm Workers during the [TLS handshake](https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-happens-in-a-tls-handshake/) of their first request. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kx2rh86xjvve6bav93q6n7d0)) ^1032804824