Re:Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support
by kentonv on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:18AM
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> They are the last of the major CDNs to offer this sort of functionally
Eh? Which other CDNs let normal (non-big-enterprise) users deploy Turing-complete code to the edge before Workers was launched in 2018?
I can only think of Lambda@Edge, which itself was quite new at the time. But maybe I'm forgetting some. Which ones are you thinking of?
Re:Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support
by briandear on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:20AM
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Fastly?
Re:Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support
by kentonv on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:21AM
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VCL isn't turing-complete, and their new thing (still in closed beta, I think?) was definitely after Workers.
Re:Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support
by jgrahamc on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:16AM
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No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
Re:Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support
by spzb on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:40AM
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> their control panel is maddening and it’s very hard to understand what each switch/knob actually is doing behind all of the marketing speak
Really? I find their control panel to be quite straightforward and intuitive. Certainly more so than AWS, GCP or Azure shudder
Re:Cloudflare Workers Announces Broad Language Support
by simlevesque on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:00AM
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> They are the last of the major CDNs to offer this sort of functionally — code you can inject at different points along the request.
That is just false. There are many others, like CloudFront Edge Lambda.
They are the last of the major CDNs to offer this sort of functionally — code you can inject at different points along the request.
Yes, they did a huge service to the internet by giving everyone free SSL but their control panel is maddening and it’s very hard to understand what each switch/knob actually is doing behind all of the marketing speak.
I think the free DNS are great too but I see all this worker stuff as a catch up “we do this too” feature and not a new thing. They aren’t doing it better than anyone else.