The article discusses how Cloudflare's serverless platform, Workers, can be used for building an open-source e-commerce app. It highlights the benefits of using Workers as a static site hosting platform, API server, and webhook consumer within a single codebase. The author also explains how to integrate Workers with Stripe for payment processing and Sanity.io for data management. The article concludes by encouraging readers to explore the open-source project on GitHub and build their own e-commerce applications using Workers.