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8 articles tagged with Cloudflare.

The Edge Computing Playbook — What to Run at the Edge (and What Not To)

The edge is fast because it's constrained. This is the decision map for what belongs at the edge, what belongs at origin, and how compute, data, caching, and auth fit together.

Kiril Urbonas·3

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••6 days ago

Cloudflare Durable Objects — Stateful Coordination at the Edge

Edge functions run everywhere and remember nothing. Durable Objects give you one addressable, single-threaded instance with transactional storage — the missing source of truth.

Kiril Urbonas·1

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••last week

Edge Runtime Limits — What You Can't Do at the Edge

Edge runtimes look like Node but aren't. Here's what actually breaks — CPU caps, no filesystem, no TCP sockets — and how we route around it.

Kiril Urbonas·1

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••last week

Cloudflare R2 vs S3: Egress-Free Object Storage in Practice

We moved 40 TB of user media off S3 and cut the bill by 70 percent, mostly by killing egress fees. Here's where R2 won and where we kept S3 anyway.

Kiril Urbonas·2

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••2 weeks ago

Turso vs Cloudflare D1: Choosing an Edge SQLite Database

Both put SQLite near your users, but they solve replication and write latency very differently. We ran the same schema on both for a month and picked one.

Kiril Urbonas·1

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••2 weeks ago

Cloudflare Workers vs AWS Lambda@Edge: Where Each Wins

We moved a rewrite-heavy request path off Lambda@Edge to Workers and cut p95 from 340ms to 41ms. Here's when that swap pays off and when it doesn't.

Kiril Urbonas·1

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••3 weeks ago

Edge Caching with Stale-While-Revalidate — Fast and Fresh at the CDN

The cache-control header most teams under-use. How stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error turned our CDN from a freshness liability into a latency and resilience win — with the gotchas.

Kiril Urbonas·4

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Edge Databases for Low-Latency Apps — D1, Turso, Neon Serverless

Edge compute is useless without an edge data layer. Three serverless databases that put data within ms of your edge functions, with the tradeoffs that aren't on the marketing pages.

Kiril Urbonas·52

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