Cloudflare named a leader in Forrester Edge Development Platforms Wave, Q4 2023

The Forrester Wave™ has recognized Cloudflare as a leader in Edge Development Platforms, Q4 2023, with top scores in the current offering category. Over one million developers are using its platform to build applications across Workers, Pages, R2, KV, Queues, Durable Objects, D1, Stream, Images, and more. Key strengths of the platform include interoperability with Cloudflare's programmable global CDN and intelligent workload placement. Additionally, developers can leverage Smart Placement to optimize Workers for optimal performance. The ease of onboarding and adoption by developers with no prior background is consistently praised. Cloudflare continues to expand its platform capabilities, focusing on full-stack application development support. Its commitment to web standard APIs and compatibility with popular open-source frameworks make the platform accessible to a wide range of developers. The integration of GPUs and LLMs into the developer platform aims to position Cloudflare as a competitive alternative to public cloud hyperscalers for workloads. The report also highlights upcoming features like Workers AI Inference, which allows developers to use open-source AI models without any infrastructure provisioning or paying for unused capacity. Future enhancements include improved observability and secret management tools across Cloudflare products to support advanced applications and mission-critical workloads on the platform.