The work includes Workers for edge logic and API routing, R2 as object storage where the egress economics matter, Pages for static and dynamic frontends, and the security and performance configuration that protects production traffic.
The edge of how our clients ship.
Cloudflare PowerUP Partner. Workers, R2, and the network that sits in front of a lot of what we deliver.
Edge compute, performance, and security
Cloudflare's network sits in front of a meaningful share of what we ship.
The combination drawing the most attention now is edge AI.
Workers AI for inference closer to the user, vector databases that don't require an AWS-shaped bill, and workloads that previously required a region-deployed application to be split across edge and origin in a way that's actually maintainable. We've shipped on this combination, and we know where the platform helps and where it adds complexity.
Decisions about what runs at the edge and what runs in a region are some of the more interesting ones in modern web architecture.
We make them on each engagement rather than defaulting one way or the other.
Where the edge fits,
and where it doesn't
The edge is the right answer for low-latency reads, request shaping, authentication, and a growing set of compute workloads where colocation with the user matters more than colocation with the database.
It isn't the right answer for stateful workloads with heavy data dependencies, long-running compute, or anything that needs to be tightly coupled to a single region's data store. We'll tell a client when the architecture is fighting the platform, not adapting to it.
It isn't the right answer for stateful workloads with heavy data dependencies, long-running compute, or anything that needs to be tightly coupled to a single region's data store. We'll tell a client when the architecture is fighting the platform, not adapting to it.
Inside the Cloudflare developer programme
We're a member of Cloudflare's PowerUP Partner Programme. Our engineers participate in early-access programmes for new platform features, particularly around Workers AI and the data primitives Cloudflare keeps adding to the developer platform.
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