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

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

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