Computation on the edge
August 02, 2023

Computation on the edge

Semen Tselishchev | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Paid

Overall Satisfaction with Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare Workers have very powerful but at the same time simple enough API. They comes really handy when you need some computational power on the backend, but for some reason having a separate service seems like an overkill.

One of the use-cases we embrace is to optimize page loading of our site: proxying request to reduce DNS resolve time & prefetching/preloading and even parallelization of the loading for some critical resources.
  • Proxying
  • Html rewriting
  • simple storage on the edge
  • monitoring - no build-in way to have retention for logs
  • service binding - is not well supported for the local development.

Do you think Cloudflare Workers delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cloudflare Workers's feature set?

Yes

Did Cloudflare Workers live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cloudflare Workers go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cloudflare Workers again?

Yes

Good: really best in breed for lambda on the edge. it's much easier to make complex redirects decisions in JS rather than using rewrite rule syntax
Good: wrangler CLI for local development

Bad: no built-in retentions of logs and it's still hard to troubleshoot issues on the edge

Cloudflare Workers Feature Ratings

Programming Language Diversity
9
Runtime API Authoring
8
Function/Database Integration
Not Rated
DevOps Stack Integration
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Not Rated
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
Dashboards
6
Standard reports
Not Rated
Custom reports
Not Rated