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
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
