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Show Notes
00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
01:40 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
01:58 What we’re talking about today.
02:48 Cloudflare Workers.
03:06 How Cloudflare Workers… work.
04:39 How Cloudflare Workers run.
06:05 Workers size limitations in JavaScript.
07:37 Cloudflare has their own way.
08:13 Potential vendor lock-in.
08:51 You pay based on CPU time, not wall time.
10:26 Cloudflare Pages.
12:07 Durable Objects.
16:41 Cloudflare Workflows.
19:52 How we do something similar on Syntax.fm.
20:52 Cloudflare Queues.
25:26 Files.
26:15 R2 Storage.
28:00 The Open Bandwidth Alliance.
28:39 Image Pipelines.
33:24 Cloudflare Stream.
34:24 Data.
36:37 Key Value.
40:16 Time To Live.
41:13 Hyperdrive.
44:01 Vectorize Data.
45:41 AI Gateway.
47:49 Automated Rate-Limiting.
48:50 Frameworks.
52:13 Analytics Engine.
52:52 WebRTC Engine.
53:01 Puppeteer API.
54:09 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs.
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