Cloudflare Workflows: The Newest Developer Platform Primitive at Cloudflare

In this video, we introduce Cloudflare Workflows. The term “Durable Execution” might be new to you, but don’t worry: the term comes from the desire to run applications that can resume execution from where they left off, even if the underlying host or compute fails (where the “durable” part comes from).

As we’ve continued to build out our data and AI platforms, we’ve been acutely aware that developers need ways to create reliable, repeatable workflows that operate over that data, turn unstructured data into structured data, trigger on fresh data (or periodically), and automatically retry, restart, and export metrics for each step along the way. The industry calls this Durable Execution: we’re just calling it Workflows.

What makes Workflows different from other takes on Durable Execution is that we provide the underlying compute as part of the platform. You don’t have to bring-your-own compute, or worry about scaling it or provisioning it in the right locations. Workflows runs on top of Cloudflare Workers – you write the workflow, and we take care of the rest.

Create an account on Cloudflare today for free: https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up

Punderful repository: https://github.com/craigsdennis/punderful-workflows

Tools mentioned:
https://developers.cloudflare.com
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workflows/
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/


Chapters:
00:00 Background
00:47 Workflows Introduction
1:10 Punderful, an app using all of the Cloudflare primitives
2:35 Vectorize
3:00 Workflow code in Action
7:00 Does it scale?
7:15 Conclusion and next video introduction

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