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Making Cloudflare the best place for your web applications

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# Cloudflare Workers DevOps improvements announced at developer conference At their annual developer's conference called "Workers Summit", the company announced several updates for its serverless computing platform, Cloudflare Workers. 1. Smart Placement: This feature optimizes where code is run, either on the edge (near the end user), or in a data center, based on factors such as latency and concurrency. The goal is to improve performance by reducing round trip time for network requests. 2. Development improvements: Cloudflare introduced new versions of its command-line tool Wrangler v3, and an upgraded online editor powered by VSCode in the dashboard. These updates provide a more efficient development environment with faster code reloads and improved debugging capabilities. 3. Increased resource limits: The company increased application size limits to 10MB (after gzip) and startup latency limit from 200ms to 400ms. They also announced plans to simplify pricing and increase other resource limits by introducing tiers. 4. Pages CI upgrade: Cloudflare upgraded the build image used for their Pages continuous integration system, allowing developers to use more recent versions of tools like Node.js and pnpm. 5. Framework adapters and C3: To support full-stack web applications, Cloudflare partnered with many web framework authors to create new or improve existing adapters for various popular JavaScript web frameworks. They also released a new sassy CLI called C3 that serves as an entry point into the Cloudflare universe for developers. Overall, these updates aim to make Cloudflare Workers the best place to run full-stack web applications by improving developer productivity and performance optimization capabilities.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
May 17, 2023

Author(s)
Igor Minar

Word count
1685

Language
English

Hacker News points
6


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