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Post by jgrahamc » Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 3:39 PM UTC

stagas wrote: post #49

kentonv wrote: post #10

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I think the comparison is just old, it used to be accurate. - Cloudflare Workers now supports WebSocket. - Cloudflare Workers now supports strongly-consistent storage / ACID transactions with Durable Objects. - Cloudflare Workers is becoming open source, but not there yet (I am refactoring the code for this as we speak): https://twitter.com/KentonVarda/status/1523666343412654081 (Disclosure: I'm the tech lead for Clo…

Cloudflare Workers might be great if people were allowed to try it out, but there is an interogation screening step that involves a Zoom call in the free tier process which is a bit of a blocker tbh.

Post by kentonv » Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 5:02 PM UTC

stagas wrote: post #52

kentonv wrote: post #50

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Huh? No there isn't. It's completely self-service, no talking to anyone, unless you are going for an enterprise account.

Ok then I was wrong, I can login now. Perhaps it was a UI issue, but I was directed to filling out a contact form after trying to sign up for the Workers KV, which then prompted me to booking a Zoom call via email. That was what I was talking about, so I probably ended up for the enterprise sign up somehow. :/ Sorry for that confusion.

Post by kentonv » Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 6:24 PM UTC

stagas wrote: post #54

kentonv wrote: post #53

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Yeah, it sounds like somehow the system thought you were enterprise. If you see that again please file a ticket, it shouldn't be happening.

Ok I checked again. The landing page at https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/products/workers-kv/ both the main `Sign Up` and `Contact Sales` buttons point to the same contact sales form so I guess I clicked on that Sign Up button when I wanted to try it out. This doesn't happen in the other Sign Up links, like the one up right and the Get Started links in the pricing/overview pages. They go straight to Sign Up. I will t…

Post by cestith » Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 7:40 PM UTC

crabmusket wrote: post #32

system2 wrote: post #24

I want to punch a drywall each time when I read "serverless".

It should have been "sysadminless", which is equally accurate (sysadmins still exist) but truer to the purpose of these technologies.

Post by quickthrower2 » Wed, Jul 27, 2022, 9:20 PM UTC

system2 wrote: post #56

quickthrower2 wrote: post #36

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It isn’t just a buzzword though. I take it to mean “sys admin handled for you” but there is a spectrum. Clearly with this if you self host it is serverful again to some extent. Serverless means not dealing with user accounts, operating systems, opening ports, nginx, updates etc.

AKA managed.