
Cloudflare Workers Has a Free Edge Computing Platform: Run JavaScript at 300+ Data Centers With Zero Cold Starts
AWS Lambda has cold starts. Vercel Edge Functions are tied to Vercel. Deno Deploy is Deno-only. You want serverless that's fast globally, runs standard JavaScript, and has a generous free tier. Cloudflare Workers execute at 300+ edge locations worldwide with zero cold starts — your code runs in milliseconds, everywhere. Free Tier 100,000 requests/day 10ms CPU time per request Workers KV: 100,000 reads/day, 1,000 writes/day R2 storage: 10 GB D1 database: 5 GB Quick Start npm create cloudflare@latest my-worker cd my-worker && npx wrangler dev Basic Worker export default { async fetch ( request : Request , env : Env ): Promise < Response > { const url = new URL ( request . url ); if ( url . pathname === " /api/hello " ) { return Response . json ({ message : " Hello from the edge! " }); } if ( url . pathname === " /api/geo " ) { // Cloudflare provides geo data automatically const cf = request . cf ; return Response . json ({ country : cf ?. country , city : cf ?. city , timezone : cf ?. ti
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