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Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare Workers

Edge computing at 300+ locations worldwide

Cloudflare Workers runs JavaScript/WASM at the edge in 300+ locations. Features include Workers AI for inference, D1 (SQLite at the edge), R2 (S3-compatible storage), and KV (key-value store). The edge computing platform.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

The free tier is absurdly generous and the cold starts are essentially zero. For APIs, middleware, and edge logic, nothing else gives you this performance at this price.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Ship

The Worker runtime has limitations — no Node.js stdlib, size limits, CPU time limits. Know the constraints. But for what it does well, it's unbeatable.

The Futurist

The Futurist

Big Picture

Ship

Cloudflare is building the programmable internet. Workers + D1 + R2 + AI = a complete platform that runs at the edge. They're quietly becoming the default infrastructure layer.

Community Sentiment

Overall2,322 mentions
74% positive17% neutral9% negative
Hacker News521 mentions

D1 + Workers is the stack I've been waiting for — SQLite at the edge with zero cold starts

Reddit687 mentions

Moved my side project from Lambda to Workers — cold start times went from 800ms to under 10ms

Twitter/X930 mentions

The free tier is absurd — 100k requests/day is more than most side projects ever need

Product Hunt184 mentions

R2 egress pricing killed S3 for static assets — this is the stack for modern full-stack apps