#1 most frequent
United States of America
58.8%255 installations of 434
What is Cloudflare Workers?
Cloudflare Workers is a function-as-a-service (FaaS) option that enables users to deploy serverless code instantly across the globe to give it performance and scale. Users don't need to configure auto-scaling, load balancers, or paying for unused capacity. Traffic is automatically routed and load balanced across thousands of servers.
Categories & Use Cases
Top Performing Features
Programming Language Diversity
The product’s support level for a variety of programming languages. For example, a 9 could indicate that the product supports all common programming languages. A 5 could indicate that the product only supports some common languages, or that its support for important languages is buggy or incomplete.
Category average: 8.8
Runtime API Authoring
The product’s support for authoring functions via API endpoints.
Category average: 8
DevOps Stack Integration
The product’s capacity to integrate with other products in a DevOps stack.
Category average: 6.9
Areas for Improvement
Dashboards
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
Category average: 6.5
Who Buys & Uses Cloudflare Workers
#2 most frequent
Canada
5.8%25 installations of 434
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
4.6%20 installations of 434
Cloudflare Workers - An Excellent Tool
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We were facing several problems in our organization; we did a bit of research on how to solve them, and then finally we found Cloudflare Workers. I just want to mention two cases where Cloudflare Workers has helped us.
First, it was very difficult for us to manage extensive URL redirections, but after using Cloudflare Workers, we became able to implement a large-scale URL redirection strategy. Fortunately, this reduced our manual efforts and saved a lot of time.
The second problem we were facing was managing a huge number of emails we were receiving. We use the Cloudflare Workers in combination with mail channels to manage email traffic; absolutely, this helps us a lot.
First, it was very difficult for us to manage extensive URL redirections, but after using Cloudflare Workers, we became able to implement a large-scale URL redirection strategy. Fortunately, this reduced our manual efforts and saved a lot of time.
The second problem we were facing was managing a huge number of emails we were receiving. We use the Cloudflare Workers in combination with mail channels to manage email traffic; absolutely, this helps us a lot.
Pros
- Efficient URL Redirection
- Excellent Email Service Optimization
- Real-time Data Processing
Cons
- Limited Built-in Analytics and Monitoring
Return on Investment
- We have improved load times by using its edge caching feature.
- It also enhances our user experience.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
AWS Lambda and Netlify Platform
Other Software Used
AWS Lambda
Computation on the edge
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Cloudflare Workers have very powerful but at the same time simple enough API. They comes really handy when you need some computational power on the backend, but for some reason having a separate service seems like an overkill.
One of the use-cases we embrace is to optimize page loading of our site: proxying request to reduce DNS resolve time & prefetching/preloading and even parallelization of the loading for some critical resources.
One of the use-cases we embrace is to optimize page loading of our site: proxying request to reduce DNS resolve time & prefetching/preloading and even parallelization of the loading for some critical resources.
Pros
- Proxying
- Html rewriting
- simple storage on the edge
Cons
- monitoring - no build-in way to have retention for logs
- service binding - is not well supported for the local development.
Return on Investment
- n/a