Hosting a static site in 2024 should be cheap, secure, and fast. The combination of AWS S3, CloudFront, ACM, and Cloudflare DNS gets you all three — at a cost that rounds to zero for most personal or small-team projects. You pay for the domain registration and essentially nothing else. This article walks through the … Read more
There is a particular kind of side project that starts elegant and slowly accumulates weight. You wire up a GitHub Actions workflow, toss an API key into Secrets, write a quick script, and ship it. Six months later, the workflow is still running, the costs are negligible, but every time you open the repository you … Read more
PHP has always felt like a second-class citizen on the modern edge compute landscape. When you look at Cloudflare Workers, the documentation, the community examples, and the tooling all orbit JavaScript and TypeScript. Rust gets a nod. Python recently joined the party. PHP? Until recently, the honest answer was: not really. That changed with Cloudflare … Read more
The 10ms Wall Is Real, and It Will Find You Cloudflare Workers on the Free Plan enforces a hard 10ms CPU time limit per request. Cross it, and the runtime terminates your Worker with Error 1102 Worker exceeded resource limits. No retry, no grace period. The client gets a 5xx and your logs show exceeded … Read more
The Reflex Problem in Infrastructure Selection When a new project lands, most engineers reach for AWS without thinking. The muscle memory is understandable. AWS has the deepest service catalog, the most battle-tested tooling, and the largest talent pool. But over the last two or three years, Cloudflare's developer platform has crossed a threshold where dismissing … Read more
Most engineers first encounter Cloudflare Access as a way to slap an email allowlist in front of an internal tool. That is a fine starting point. But the real capability sits deeper: Access can enforce identity conditions drawn from external systems, including community platforms, and it can do so without modifying a single line of … Read more
There is a particular kind of problem that accumulates quietly until it becomes unmanageable: information overload. If you run RSS feeds from a dozen technical sources, the unread count climbs faster than any human can reasonably process. The standard response is to ignore most of it, which defeats the purpose. The two approaches I want … Read more
