AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go

Re:AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go by kentonv on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:39PM (#28911397)

Cloudflare Workers competes with both Lambda and Lambda@Edge. Workers is a general-purpose compute platform that happens to run on the edge; it is not a platform intended to be specific to things that need to run on the edge.

(Disclosure: I'm the tech lead of Workers.)

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Re:AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go by yazaddaruvala on Monday October 18, 2021 @07:09PM (#28912985)

It's probably better said as, "CF Workers competes with Lambda's synchronous use-cases".

Based on what I understand, there are still a few things missing to compete with Lambda's asynchronous use-cases. e.g. Step Functions, 15 min time limits, non-cron events (i.e. events for every CF product), batching events into the same execution, etc. While some of these are technically "not part of Lambda", to compete with Lambda CF needs the ecosystem as well.

Disclosure: 1. I'm an AMZN investor, therefore calling out that the ecosystem is worth keeping in mind. 2. I'm a NET investor, therefore calling out that I'm looking forward to seeing the ecosystem develop :)

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