Cloud Development

Async APIs with Cloudflare Workers and Queues

May 05, 2026  8 minute read  

Continuing my journey into learning the Cloudflare Developer Platform, I decided to figure out how to use Queues today. While Workers are the central compute component of the platform, you need asynchronous processing for AI agents and complex workflows. Queues allow you to offload heavy tasks so the main Worker doesn’t time out or hit memory limits. Beyond simple buffering, queues are a core concept in distributed systems and serverless design, allowing you to move from simple APIs to r...

Maintaining state in a serverless world: Cloudflare Durable Objects

May 01, 2026  9 minute read  

When you look at the Cloudflare Developer Platform, you will quickly start drawing parallels between what Cloudflare provides and what the hyperscalers (such as AWS and Azure) provide. Sure, there are technical differences. However, you can build with the same basic primitives: Service Cloudflare AWS Azure GCP Compute Workers Lambda Functions Cloud Functions Database D1 Aurora S...

Introduction to Cloudflare AI Gateway

April 29, 2026  6 minute read  

Today, I am continuing my deep-dive into every aspect of the Cloudflare Developer Platform by getting to grips with the AI inference capabilities of the platform. To do this, I’ve written a small AI Chat app that you can quickly deploy to your own Cloudflare dashboard if you like. Let’s take a look at some of the learnings today. My intent with todays investigation was to make an app that looks like one of the many public AI chat systems. I think that Google Gemini looks “the best” of t...

Introduction to Cloudflare Workers

April 26, 2026  11 minute read  

I’ve recently started working on bringing myself up to speed on the Cloudflare Dev Platform, which is a serverless development platform that runs your applications at the edge (and Cloudflare has more than 300 points of presence, so the edge is fairly spread out). This is the first in a series that will go through all the major features of the Cloudflare Dev Platform, but attempt to make some sense out of what each feature is best at and what works well together. Let’s say you are using C...