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Re:Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of it... by austinpena on Monday July 27, 2020 @06:52PM (#23970362)
This is a genuine question, why run a database bound application at the edge? Why not just cache HTML on the edge when you can and run the application traditionally?
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Re:Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of it... by thegagne on Monday July 27, 2020 @07:15PM (#23970503)
Reasons I would want to:

1. To eliminate a layer of application/server/network management (especially if you have complex infra).

2. To get “free” application high availability.

3. To integrate with other stuff on the edge (auth/identity).

4. To serve as a central query aggregator from multiple sources.

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Re:Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, next evolution of it... by austinpena on Monday July 27, 2020 @10:56PM (#23971863)
Makes plenty of sense. Thank you!
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