Experiences and Limitations with Cloudflare Workers Development
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STRiDEX
Pure flour-power. Hearty enough to carry you through lunch.
Summary
The author shares their experience with Cloudflare Workers, discussing both the appeal of the platform's free/cheap resources and the frustrations encountered when building larger projects that hit platform limits. They explore the concept of 'vibeporting' - porting projects based on feeling rather than technical requirements - and discuss Datasette-ts deployment options, noting that while AI projects can be deployed almost everywhere, Cloudflare Workers has limitations. The article reflects on the balance between platform convenience and technical constraints.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledI've always really liked the idea of this platform that has cheap/free resources, but every time I build larger things on it I run into limits that make me frustrated and move to cheap vps hosting like fly.io or DigitalOcean.
Is vibeporting a word? Maybe it should be?
You can deploy it pretty much everywhere but NOT on Cloudflare
This January I decided to double down on using up my free ai credits by building a few projects on Cloudflare Workers.
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