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by nosefrog 465 days ago
> When using Cloudflare Workers as an API server, I have experienced requests that would “fail silently” and leave a “hanging connection”, with no error thrown, no log emitted, and a frontend that is just loading. Honestly, no idea what’s up with this.

Yikes, these sorts of errors are so hard to debug. Especially if you don't have a real server to log into to get pcaps.
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viraptor 465 days ago
Cloudflare workers are not amazing in terms of communicating problems. The errors you get can also be out of sync with the docs and the support doesn't have access to poke at your issues directly. Together with the custom runtime and outdated TS types... it can be a very frustrating DX.
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sebmellen 465 days ago
We’ve tried, but it’s hard to imagine any real production system using Cloudflare Workers..
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viraptor 465 days ago
I've done it, but: enterprise support helps a lot, multiple extremely annoying tickets were required, I did find multiple issues - some fixed, some worked around. And overall, the fewer people use CF (or another provider of their size) the better.
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zxt_tzx 464 days ago
> And overall, the fewer people use CF (or another provider of their size) the better.

I understand your sentiment, but I vehemently disagree.

The cloud provider space has rapidly become an oligopoly and CloudFlare is one of the few new entrants that (1) has sufficient scale to compete with the incumbents; (2) has new ideas that the incumbents cannot easily match (region earth, durable objects etc.).

For most production workloads, I would not even consider the newer cloud providers, but I sincerely meant it when I said I hope Cloudflare will succeed. They've also been very responsive to the feedback raised in the blogpost when I DM-ed them.

(On a side note re: difficulty for newcomers in this market, I used to be part of a team that would run e.g. staging and testing environments on a new serverless db provider, but would run prod on AWS Aurora. In retrospect, this did not make much sense either as you want your environments to be as similar as possible, which means new cloud providers have an even tougher time getting started.)

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