How Cloudflare Reinvents Serverless at Global Scale with Josh Howard

About this episode

Josh Howard discusses Cloudflare's innovative serverless platform and its impact on application development.

Summary Josh Howard, Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudflare, joins Kostas and Nitay to discuss Cloudflare's innovative serverless platform, Durable Objects, and Workers. Learn how Cloudflare enables developers to build stateful applications with global scale, consistency, and simplicity at the network edge. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Background 02:01 Journey into Storage Systems 04:24 Cloudflare's Evolution and Developer Platform 06:29 Understanding Durable Objects 08:57 Durable Objects in Modern App Development 11:18 Use Cases for Cloudflare's Developer Platform 13:36 Building Agents and Real-Time Applications 16:19 Developer Experience and Migration Strategies 25:09 Exploring Workflow Systems: OLAP vs Applications 26:47 Cloudflare's Development Platform: Future Offerings for Data Professionals 28:42 Transitioning from Data Processing to Application Development 31:37 The Impact of LLMs on System Design 33:44 Serverless Platforms: Challenges and Limitations 40:01 Future Directions: Cloudflare's Storage Relay Service and Global Expansion Click here to view the episode transcript.

People in this episode

Hosts: Kostas, Nitay

Guest: Josh Howard

Topics covered

• serverless computing
• Cloudflare
• Durable Objects
• application development
• developer experience
• global scale

Keywords

• Cloudflare
• serverless
• Durable Objects
• global scale
• developer platform
• real-time applications
• migration strategies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cloudflare

Products: Durable Objects, Workers

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