Cloudflare's Latest Product Could Be a Game Changer
Built on top of Cloudflare's (NYSE: NET) global edge computing network is a set of products aimed at software developers. Serverless functions can run on Workers; websites can be hosted on Pages; a full-featured database can be stood up using D1 ; and event-driven systems could be built with Queues. More recently, Cloudflare has launched multiple AI-focused products, bringing ultrafast AI inferencing to its developer platform.While complete applications could be built using Cloudflare's developer platform, the missing piece has always been the ability to deploy arbitrary third-party applications. A developer may need to deploy a content management system, an authentication system, or any number of other software components. Cloudflare Workers is great for running bits of JavaScript or Python code, but it can't handle a wide range of use cases.In June, Cloudflare will launch its Containers product into open beta. A container is essentially a stripped-down bundle of application code and all dependencies, allowing an application to be deployed to any computing environment quickly and easily in a standardized way.Continue reading
Built on top of Cloudflare's (NYSE: NET) global edge computing network is a set of products aimed at software developers. Serverless functions can run on Workers; websites can be hosted on Pages; a full-featured database can be stood up using D1 ; and event-driven systems could be built with Queues. More recently, Cloudflare has launched multiple AI-focused products, bringing ultrafast AI inferencing to its developer platform.
While complete applications could be built using Cloudflare's developer platform, the missing piece has always been the ability to deploy arbitrary third-party applications. A developer may need to deploy a content management system, an authentication system, or any number of other software components. Cloudflare Workers is great for running bits of JavaScript or Python code, but it can't handle a wide range of use cases.
In June, Cloudflare will launch its Containers product into open beta. A container is essentially a stripped-down bundle of application code and all dependencies, allowing an application to be deployed to any computing environment quickly and easily in a standardized way.
