Making magic: Reimagining Developer Experience for the World of Serverless
The text discusses the development experience with Workers, a platform that provides serverless computing services. It highlights how Workers improves TTFD (time to first dopamine) and emphasizes the importance of this metric in the developer's journey. The author talks about the challenges faced while developing applications on existing serverless platforms and how Workers aims to overcome these issues by providing a delightful development experience. The text then delves into the four stages of the developer's journey: getting started, iteration, release, and observe. It explains how Workers simplifies each stage, making it easier for developers to write, test, deploy, and monitor their applications. The platform offers features like fast feedback loop, sandboxed nature, and accuracy in local development through wrangler dev. Workers also ensures quick deployment times (less than five seconds) without cold starts, allowing developers to release code frequently. Additionally, it provides tools for observability, such as Workers Metrics for trend identification and `wrangler tail` for production log access. The author concludes by encouraging users to provide feedback on their development experience with Workers.
Company
Cloudflare
Date published
July 31, 2020
Author(s)
Rita Kozlov
Word count
2166
Language
English
Hacker News points
4