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Alex Spinov
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Cloudflare Workers Has a Free Edge Serverless Platform With 100K Daily Requests

Cloudflare Workers runs JavaScript at the edge in 300+ data centers. Your code executes within milliseconds of your users.

Free Tier

  • 100K requests/day — free forever
  • Workers KV — 100K reads, 1K writes/day
  • R2 storage — 10GB free, zero egress fees
  • D1 database — 5M rows read, 100K writes/day
  • Durable Objects — stateful edge computing

Hello World

export default {
  async fetch(request) {
    return new Response('Hello from the edge!');
  },
};
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Deploy

npm create cloudflare@latest
npx wrangler deploy
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Workers vs Lambda

Feature Workers Lambda
Cold start 0ms 100-1000ms
Locations 300+ ~30 regions
Free tier 100K/day 1M/month

Need edge computing help? Check my work on GitHub or email spinov001@gmail.com for consulting.

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