I am using it to proxy (think API gateway) all sorts of network-bound things [0]:
1. Content delivery (downloads).
2. Analytics (metrics and logging).
3. Proxy misc HTTP requests.
I planned to move web-hosting to Workers too but Netlify is just too smooth and I don't see a reason to do so currently, though the recently announced free analytics product (for websites proxied through Cloudflare) might tempt me to do so anyway.
[0] The 50ms time-limit is for cpu-time and not wall-time. The latter doesn't seem to have any documented limits and so works great for "streaming" network-bound workloads.
1. Content delivery (downloads).
2. Analytics (metrics and logging).
3. Proxy misc HTTP requests.
I planned to move web-hosting to Workers too but Netlify is just too smooth and I don't see a reason to do so currently, though the recently announced free analytics product (for websites proxied through Cloudflare) might tempt me to do so anyway.
[0] The 50ms time-limit is for cpu-time and not wall-time. The latter doesn't seem to have any documented limits and so works great for "streaming" network-bound workloads.