Cloudflare Pages: Best server tech since CGI-bin?

• workerd

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  The JavaScript / Wasm runtime that powers Cloudflare Workers

  

The engine is open source: https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd

We did not create our own engine to create "lock-in". On the contrary, it would be a huge win for us if we could simply run FastCGI or Node or whatever applications unmodified. We'd be able to onboard a lot more customers more quickly that way! Our product is our physical network (with hundreds of locations around the world), not our specific development environment.

But none of that tech scales well enough that we could run every app in every one of our locations around the world, at an affordable price. Meeting that goal required new tech. The best we could do is base it on open standard APIs (browser APIs, mostly), so a lot of code designed for browsers ports over nicely.

(I'm the lead engineer for Workers. These were my design choices, originally.)

• cloudflare-docs

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  Cloudflare’s documentation

  

We're working on the documentation, I agree it can certainly be thin (or just not understandable). Please do file an issue for any improvements you'd like to see: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-docs/issues

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• docs

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