691: Cloudflare Workers Are Next Level With Rita Kozlov And Brendan Irvine-Broque

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Rita Kozlov And Brendan Irvine-Broque about Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare AI, browser rendering API, Cloudflare’s D1 database, WinterCG, miniflare, and more!
Show Notes 00:32 Welcome
01:53 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
02:20 What are Cloudflare Workers?
Announcing WinterJS

Cloudflare Workers®

Puppeteer | Puppeteer

06:23 How long did Workers take to ship?
07:31 Can you run your entire business on Cloudflare Workers?
10:52 Interesting use cases for Cloudflare Workers
12:33 What makes the edge important?
18:05 Managing GDPR compliance
19:02 What are the tradeoffs of building with Cloudflare Workers?
Cloudflare Queues

20:22 How does Workers pricing work?
26:54 What are situations where you might need longer times?
28:50 Browser rendering API
Browser Rendering docs

29:43 What is Cloudflare D1 database product?
Cloudflare D1

31:05 Cloudflare Hyperdrive
Hyperdrive

“Serverless” Databases

34:27 Cloudflare Workers don’t use a Node.js runtime
Introducing workerd: the Open Source Workers runtime

37:13 What is WinterCG?
WinterCG

45:09 Will we ever see a standard for server routing?
TCP sockets · Cloudflare Workers docs

49:30 What is miniflare?
🔥 Miniflare · Miniflare

54:05 Can I run Python on Cloudflare?
55:49 Cloudflare AI
Partnering with Hugging Face to make deploying AI easier

Cloudflare + AI

WebGPU API

Cache · Cloudflare Workers docs

57:04 Supper Club questions
59:38 Sick Picks
Sick Picks Get a bench scrape

Shameless Plugs Cloudflare Discord

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