Computing at the Edge is one of the most exciting capabilities in recent years. CDN allows you to keep your files closer to your users. Edge computing allows you to run your applications closer to your users. This helps developers to build globally distributed, performant applications. By Enes Akar.
Cloudflare Workers is the leading product in this space right now. It gives you a serverless processing environment without cold starts. You leverage Cloudflare’s global network to minimize latency of your applications. You can write your functions in JavaScript, Rust, C and C++.
The article also deals with:
- Comparing with Cloudflare Workers KV
- Analytics at the Edge
- Cloudflare workers code
- Analytics tool code
- Upstash edge roadmap
Similar to Serverless functions (AWS Lambda etc.), Cloudflare Workers are stateless. Unfortunately, most databases are not designed for serverless environments, they require persistent connections. We developed the REST API over Redis to enable serverless edge functions to access Upstash in the simplest and fastest way possible. Good read with link to the code used in the article.
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