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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