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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

691: Cloudflare Workers Are Next Level With Rita Kozlov And Brendan Irvine-Broque

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Rita Kozlov And Brendan Irvine-Broque about Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare AI, browser rendering API, Cloudflare’s D1 database, WinterCG, miniflare, and more! Show Notes 00:32 Welcome 01:53 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry 02:20 What are Cloudflare Workers? Announcing WinterJS Cloudflare Workers® Puppeteer | Puppeteer 06:23 How long did Workers take to ship? 07:31 Can you run your entire business on Cloudflare Workers? 10:52 Interesting use cases for Cloudflare Workers 12:33 What makes the edge important? 18:05 Managing GDPR compliance 19:02 What are the tradeoffs of building with Cloudflare Workers? Cloudflare Queues 20:22 How does Workers pricing work? 26:54 What are situations where you might need longer times? 28:50 Browser rendering API Browser Rendering docs 29:43 What is Cloudflare D1 database product? Cloudflare D1 31:05 Cloudflare Hyperdrive Hyperdrive “Serverless” Databases 34:27 Cloudflare Workers don’t use a Node.js runtime Introducing workerd: the Open Source Workers runtime 37:13 What is WinterCG? WinterCG 45:09 Will we ever see a standard for server routing? TCP sockets · Cloudflare Workers docs 49:30 What is miniflare? 🔥 Miniflare · Miniflare 54:05 Can I run Python on Cloudflare? 55:49 Cloudflare AI Partnering with Hugging Face to make deploying AI easier Cloudflare + AI WebGPU API Cache · Cloudflare Workers docs 57:04 Supper Club questions 59:38 Sick Picks Sick Picks Get a bench scrape Shameless Plugs Cloudflare Discord Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads

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0:00.0

I sure hope you're hungry.

0:02.0

Who I'm starving?

0:04.0

Wash those hands, pull up a chair and secure that feed bag.

0:08.0

Because it's time to listen to Scott Tolinsky and West Boss attempt to use human language to converse with and picked the brains of other developers.

0:16.8

I thought there was going to be food.

0:18.8

So buckle up and grab that old shit handle because this ride is going to get wild.

0:25.0

This is the Syntax Supper Club.

0:30.0

Welcome to Syntax. Today we have a awesome episode. We have two folks from Cloudflare

0:39.8

workers on today. I've been a Cloudflare fan boy for many years.

0:45.0

I've used it for quite a few of my projects.

0:48.0

And in fact, I think we've done a couple episodes on Cloudflare is not just a D-D-D-S thing.

0:55.6

Cloudflare is tons of really cool products behind them and one of the really cool is Cloudflare

1:02.0

workers which is their serverless edge running basically

1:07.1

running server code on cloud flare so we have them on we've got Rita Kauslove and Brendan Irvine broke on today to talk to us. So welcome. Why don't you get give yourselves a bit of an introduction to who you are? Hey, excited to be here.

1:24.0

I'm Rita, I'm Senior Director of Product

1:26.6

for our developer platform workers,

1:29.3

been at Clafler for seven years

1:32.1

and particularly focused on building out our developer offering.

1:36.8

So really excited that you guys wanted to talk to us about that.

1:40.0

Cool and I'm Brendan, a product manager for the Cloudflower Workers' Runtime.

1:43.7

I focus very deeply on the APIs that we offer in workers, web standards, kind of everything

1:50.4

that's developer facing that you work with in a

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