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It's often not actually more complex, it's simpler. With Cloudflare Workers, for example, you don't think about regions, availability zones, provisioning resour

It's often not actually more complex, it's simpler. With Cloudflare Workers, for example, you don't think about regions, availability zones, provisioning resources, or cold starts. You just write code, and it can scale from one request per second to thousands without any thought or work on your part, partially because of how its designed and partially because it's scaled across so many locations and machines.

MuffinFlavored 6y ago
> You just write code Except you need to do it in a totally new paradigm (serverless) where you can't require any `npm` packages and you can't query your database unless it's over the `fetch()` API.
- jopsen 6y ago
  And you're limited to 50 sub-requests..
  - alexey2020 6y ago
    if it's a real issue and you have to issue lots of subrequests, then you don't really get advantage from all Cloudflare micro-optimisations. In such situation I would suggest to look for other Serverless providers, or maybe traditional approach works better in such case
- alexey2020 6y ago
  Serverless are not all the same. Cloudflare uses V8 and you can't require npm packages, right. Vercel and many other implementations use NodeJS and you Can require npm packages.
- fragile_frogs 6y ago
  > where you can't require any `npm` packages You just have to introduce a build tool like ncc (https://github.com/vercel/ncc https://github.com/vercel/ncc) which will bundle your app into a single JS file.