Workers are not Lambda, and the difference will bite you
Isolates instead of containers changes cold starts, billing, global state and I/O lifetimes. Four habits carried over from Lambda that quietly break on Cloudflare Workers.
Notes from behind the orange cloud.
Everything is a proxy problem.
Proxy Everything is a working notebook on Cloudflare — Workers and the runtime that isn't Node, Zero Trust without a VPN, DNS that does more than resolve, and the storage primitives that replace half a backend. Long on config, short on marketing.
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A working Cloudflare Tunnel setup: named tunnel, ingress rules, an Access policy in front, and the two mistakes that leave an internal app on the public internet.
KV, D1, R2 or Durable Objects: a decision tree that holds up
Four storage primitives with overlapping descriptions and very different consistency models. Pick by access pattern, not by which one sounds most like a database.