Episode Details

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!

• 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

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