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AdamCloudflare Workers
What is Cloudflare Workers?
Build serverless applications on Cloudflare's global cloud network of 165 data centers. It provides a lightweight JavaScript execution environment that allows developers to augment existing applications or create entirely new ones without configuring or maintaining infrastructure.
Cloudflare Workers is a tool in the Serverless category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Load balance between multiple origins to improve speed or reliabilityRender HTML templates while fetching dynamic content from your originDynamically respond to requests without needing to connect to an origin server at allGenerate parallel requests to different services and combine the responsesCreate custom security rules and filters to block unwanted visitors and botsPerform data sanitization and validation before sending a request to your originUse custom logic to decide which requests are cacheable and improve cache hit rateDeploy fast fixes to your site in seconds without having to update your origin server
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Cloudflare Workers Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Cloudflare Workers?
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. You can use AWS Lambda to extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own back-end services that operate at AWS scale, performance, and security.
Serverless
Build applications comprised of microservices that run in response to events, auto-scale for you, and only charge you when they run. This lowers the total cost of maintaining your apps, enabling you to build more logic, faster. The Framework uses new event-driven compute services, like AWS Lambda, Google CloudFunctions, and more.
Azure Functions
Azure Functions is an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that extends the existing Azure application platform with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring in virtually any Azure or 3rd party service as well as on-premises systems.
