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Apex vs Cloudflare Workers: What are the differences?
What is Apex? Serverless Architecture with AWS Lambda. Apex is a small tool for deploying and managing AWS Lambda functions. With shims for languages not yet supported by Lambda, you can use Golang out of the box.
What is Cloudflare Workers? Build serverless applications on Cloudflare's global cloud network. 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.
Apex and Cloudflare Workers can be categorized as "Serverless / Task Processing" tools.
Some of the features offered by Apex are:
- Supports languages Lambda does not natively support via shim, such as Go
- Binary install (useful for continuous deployment in CI etc)
- Project level function and resource management
On the other hand, Cloudflare Workers provides the following key features:
- Load balance between multiple origins to improve speed or reliability
- Render HTML templates while fetching dynamic content from your origin
- Dynamically respond to requests without needing to connect to an origin server at all
Apex is an open source tool with 8K GitHub stars and 592 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apex's open source repository on GitHub.