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November 29, 2019 8:00 AM
A History of HTML Parsing at Cloudflare: Part 2
The second blog post in the series on HTML rewriters picks up the story in 2017 after the launch of the Cloudflare edge compute platform Cloudflare Workers. It became clear that the developers using workers wanted the same HTML rewriting capabilities that we used internally, ...
November 28, 2019 8:44 AM
A History of HTML Parsing at Cloudflare: Part 1
To coincide with the launch of streaming HTML rewriting functionality for Cloudflare Workers we are open sourcing the Rust HTML rewriter (LOL HTML) used to back the Workers HTMLRewriter API. We also thought it was about time to review the history of HTML rewriting at Cloudflare....
November 28, 2019 8:00 AM
Introducing the HTMLRewriter API to Cloudflare Workers
The HTMLRewriter can help solve two big problems web developers face today: making changes to the HTML, when they are hard to make at the server level, and making it possible for HTML to live on the edge, closer to the user — without sacrificing dynamic functionality....
September 27, 2019 1:00 PM
Workers Sites: Deploy Your Website Directly on our Network
Performance on the web has always been a battle against the speed of light — accessing a site from London that is served from Seattle, WA means every single asset request has to travel over seven thousand miles....
August 14, 2019 3:21 AM
Building a GraphQL server on the edge with Cloudflare Workers
Today, we're open-sourcing an exciting project that showcases the strengths of our Cloudflare Workers platform: workers-graphql-server is a batteries-included Apollo GraphQL server, designed to get you up and running quickly with GraphQL....
June 24, 2019 1:00 PM
Join Cloudflare & Moz at our next meetup, Serverless in Seattle!
Cloudflare is organizing a meetup in Seattle on Tuesday, June 25th and we hope you can join. We’ll be bringing together members of the developers community and Cloudflare users for an evening of discussion about serverless compute and the infinite number of use cases for deployin...
June 05, 2019 1:00 PM
Enhancing the Optimizely Experimentation Platform with Cloudflare Workers
Experimentation is an important ingredient in driving business growth: whether you’re iterating on a product or testing new messaging, there’s no substitute for the data and insights gathered from conducting rigorous experiments in the wild. ...
June 02, 2019 9:35 AM
Just write code: improving developer experience for Cloudflare Workers
We’re excited to announce that starting today, Cloudflare Workers® gets a CLI, new and improved docs, multiple scripts for everyone, the ability to run applications on workers.dev without bringing your own domain, and a free tier to make experimentation easier than ever....
May 24, 2019 4:46 PM
The Serverlist: Connecting the Serverless Ecosystem
Check out our 5th edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend....
May 21, 2019 1:30 PM
Building a To-Do List with Workers and KV
In this tutorial, we’ll build a todo list application in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with a twist: all the data should be stored inside of the newly-launched Workers KV, and the application itself should be served directly from Cloudflare’s edge network, using Cloudflare Workers....
May 21, 2019 1:00 PM
Workers KV — Cloudflare's distributed database
Today, we’re excited to announce Workers KV is entering general availability and is ready for production use!...
May 17, 2019 1:00 PM
Faster script loading with BinaryAST?
BinaryAST is a new over-the-wire format for JavaScript that aims to speed up parsing while keeping the semantics of the original JavaScript intact....
May 02, 2019 1:00 PM
Unit Testing Workers, in Cloudflare Workers
We recently wrote about unit testing Cloudflare Workers within a mock environment using CloudWorker (a Node.js based mock Cloudflare Worker environment created by Dollar Shave Club's engineering team). See Unit Testing Worker Functions....
April 25, 2019 1:00 PM
Rapid Development of Serverless Chatbots with Cloudflare Workers and Workers KV
As a fast-growing engineering organization, ownership of services changes fairly frequently. Many cycles get burned in chat with questions like "Who owns service x now?...