November 10th, 2023 × #cloudflare#serverless#edge computing
Cloudflare Workers Are Next Level With Rita Kozlov And Brendan Irvine-Broque
This episode covers Cloudflare Workers for running serverless code at the edge. The guests explain the use cases, benefits, and how Workers provides a standardized runtime model. Other topics include the Winter CG group for collaboration on web standards, using Wrangler CLI for local dev, and new AI integration.
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Rita Kozlov And Brendan Irvine-Broque about Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare AI, browser rendering API, Cloudflare's D1 database, WinterCG, miniflare, and more!
Show Notes
- 00:32 Welcome
- 01:53 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
- 02:20 What are Cloudflare Workers?
- Announcing WinterJS
- Cloudflare Workers®
- Puppeteer | Puppeteer
- 06:23 How long did Workers take to ship?
- 07:31 Can you run your entire business on Cloudflare Workers?
- 10:52 Interesting use cases for Cloudflare Workers
- 12:33 What makes the edge important?
- 18:05 Managing GDPR compliance
- 19:02 What are the tradeoffs of building with Cloudflare Workers?
- Cloudflare Queues
- 20:22 How does Workers pricing work?
- 26:54 What are situations where you might need longer times?
- 28:50 Browser rendering API
- Browser Rendering docs
- 29:43 What is Cloudflare D1 database product?
- Cloudflare D1
- 31:05 Cloudflare Hyperdrive
- Hyperdrive
- “Serverless” Databases
- 34:27 Cloudflare Workers don't use a Node.js runtime
- Introducing workerd: the Open Source Workers runtime
- 37:13 What is WinterCG?
- WinterCG
- 45:09 Will we ever see a standard for server routing?
- TCP sockets · Cloudflare Workers docs
- 49:30 What is miniflare?
- 🔥 Miniflare · Miniflare
- 54:05 Can I run Python on Cloudflare?
- 55:49 Cloudflare AI
- Partnering with Hugging Face to make deploying AI easier
- Cloudflare + AI
- WebGPU API
- Cache · Cloudflare Workers docs
- 57:04 Supper Club questions
- 59:38 Sick Picks
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