Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare's serverless platform. JavaScript and TypeScript functions that run in hundreds of cities, close to each user.
What it tells you about a developer
Workers experience marks a developer comfortable at the edge: code that runs worldwide within strict memory and time limits. The platform is young, so most Workers developers are self-directed early adopters who read documentation and ship without a beaten path. Strong JavaScript and TypeScript depth comes with it, and the serverless habits carry over to AWS Lambda with a short ramp.
- Type
- Service
- Released
- 2018
- Built by
- Cloudflare
- Used in
- BackendInfrastructure & DevOps
Workers runs JavaScript and TypeScript on Cloudflare's servers in hundreds of cities, so the code executes near whoever calls it. It starts in under a millisecond, which suits APIs, personalization, and rewriting requests in flight. Paired with Cloudflare's storage and database products, it can host full applications. It reached general availability in 2018.