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by freedomben 337 days ago
Cloudflare is definitely not perfect (and when they make a change that breaks the existing API contract it always makes for several miserable days for me), but on the whole Cloudflare is pretty reliable.

That said, I don't use workers and don't plan to. I personally try to stay away from non cross-platform stuff because I've been burned too heavily with vendor/platform lock-in in the past.
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kentonv 337 days ago
> and when they make a change that breaks the existing API contract it always makes for several miserable days for me

If we changed an API in Workers in a way that broke any Worker in production, we consider that an incident and we will roll it back ASAP. We really try to avoid this but sometimes it's hard for us to tell. Please feel free to contact us if this happens in the future (e.g. file a support ticket or file a bug on workerd on GitHub or complain in our Discord or email kenton@cloudflare.com).

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freedomben 337 days ago
Thank you! To clarify it's been API contracts in the DNS record setting API that have hit me. I'm going from memory here and it's been a couple years I think so might be a bit rusty, but one example was a slight change in data type acceptance for TTL on a record. It used to take either a string or integer in the JSON but at some point started rejecting integers (or strings, whichever one I was sending at the time stopped being accepted) so the API calls were suddenly failing (to be fair that might not have technically been a violation of the contract, but it was a change in behavior that had been consistent for years and which I would not have expected). Another one was regarding returning zone_id for records where the zone_id stopped getting populated in the returned record. Luckily my code already had the zone_id because it needs that to build the URL path, but it was a rough debugging session and then I had to hack around it by either re-adding the zone ID to the returned record or removing zone ID from my equality check, neither of which were preferred solutions.

If we start using workers though I'll definitely let you know if any API changes!

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kentonv 336 days ago
Hmm, I am not familiar with the DNS API but those certainly sound like changes that I'd argue should not have been made. :/
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