Episode Details

Wes and CJ break down everything Cloudflare—from Workers and R2 Storage to Hyperdrive and AI Gateway. Get the scoop on what makes Cloudflare tick, the quirks of their ecosystem, and whether vendor lock-in is a real concern.

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 01:40 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
• 01:58 What we’re talking about today.
• 02:48 Cloudflare Workers.
  • 03:06 How Cloudflare Workers… work.
  • 04:39 How Cloudflare Workers run.
  • 06:05 Workers size limitations in JavaScript.
  • 07:37 Cloudflare has their own way.
  • 08:13 Potential vendor lock-in.
  • 08:51 You pay based on CPU time, not wall time.
• 10:26 Cloudflare Pages.
  • Compatibility Matrix
• 12:07 Durable Objects.
  • Zeb X Post.
  • PartyKit.io, tldraw.
• 16:41 Cloudflare Workflows.
• 19:52 How we do something similar on Syntax.fm.
• 20:52 Cloudflare Queues.
• 25:26 Files.
• 26:15 R2 Storage.
  • Ep 780: Cloud Storage: Bandwidth, Storage and BIG ZIPS.
• 28:00 The Open Bandwidth Alliance.
• 28:39 Image Pipelines.
• 33:24 Cloudflare Stream.
  • Streaming Video in 2025.
• 34:24 Data.
• 36:37 Key Value.
• 40:16 Time To Live.
• 41:13 Hyperdrive.
  • How It Works.
  • Query caching.
• 44:01 Vectorize Data.
• 45:41 AI Gateway.
• 47:49 Automated Rate-Limiting.
• 48:50 Frameworks.
  • Orange.js.
• 52:13 Analytics Engine.
  • Counterscale.
  • Ep 761: Cloudflare Analytics Engine, Workers + more with Be