We deployed a Cloudflare worker in front of www.cloudflare.com and api.cloudflare.com, that has since served over million requests. Here's what we learned about debugging and "failing open" when writing workers.
London & Barcelona developers, we want to meet you this week
Are you based in London or Barcelona? My Developer Relations teammates and I are visiting these cities over the next two weeks. I would love to meet you and invite you to the three events I'm hosting.
Everyone can now run JavaScript on Cloudflare with Workers
We believe the true dream of cloud computing is that your code lives in the network itself. Your code doesn't run in "us-west-4", it runs everywhere.
Using Cloudflare Workers to identify pwned passwords
Last week Troy Hunt launched his Pwned Password v2 service which has an API handled and cached by Cloudflare using a clever anonymity scheme. The following simple code can check if a password exists in Troy's database without sending the password to Troy.
Cloudflare Workers is now on Open Beta
Cloudflare Workers Beta is now open! Cloudflare Workers lets you run JavaScript on Cloudflare’s edge, deploying globally to over 120+ data centers around the world in less than 30 seconds. Your code can intercept and modify any request made to your website.