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by dustbunny 251 days ago
Cloudflares docs are written so hard for web dev. Can you host a monolith app that isn't serving http traffic on cloudflare tech like containers? Like can you spawn a container and have it handle tcp or udp connections until you manually shut it down? The container docs say they auto shutdown after not receiving requests...
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It's a really good platform for Typescript microservices which scale-to-zero (up to very high theoretical limits), but it wouldn't be a platform you'd migrate a monolith PHP app to (for example).