alt Hacker NewsSerious question: Who actually builds stuff on Cloudflare workers? I mean large software projects / services, and not just side projects where the ability to scale-to-zero is perhaps more important than the scale-to-infinity direction. I feel like Cloudflare keeps pushing workers with its full force yet I fail to see the appeal.
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jesse_dot_id • today at 7:26 PM
Me. I used to deploy everything via Docker swarm but recently migrated everything to workers because wrangler is awesome, it makes blue/green very simple, and it's a lot less of a headache for me to maintain in general. It's a great/flexible product. I also use R1/R2 pretty extensively.
lioeters • today at 7:48 PM
Cloudflare Workers solves their "scaling the price to infinity" problem.
odie5533 • today at 6:31 PM
It's always seemed like a solution looking for a problem.
I'm building a commercial SaaS product on Workers. Although I've barely scratched the surface of what Cloudflare offers¹, so far it's been great. The value proposition is effectively the same as serverless in general: You worry about the product, they worry about deployment. Note that Cloudflare Workers is just one (albeit important) star in their constellation of capabilities.
¹https://developers.cloudflare.com/directory/?product-group=D...