alt Hacker NewsThe real advantage of cloudflare workers is you don’t pay for the processing time while you’re waiting for upstream network responses.
I believe Cloudflare is the only FaaS that offers that. It makes it fantastic for putting a light weight layer in front of a few upstream API, like say inference providers.
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jasonjmcghee • yesterday at 1:00 PM
And there are even hibernateable websockets too - only paying for when data is actually transferring.
And the maximum worker time is based on processing time, not wall time.
chrismustcode • yesterday at 6:57 PM
Lambda Web Functions, per the article, and Vercel Fluid Compute also do this.
> I believe Cloudflare is the only FaaS that offers that
Wasmer also offers the same (charging only for active CPU usage), with the advantage that you can run full Node.js and Python workloads
https://wasmer.io/