If you are using Cloudflare Workers, Upstash Global Redis and Workers KV are probably your best options to keep your data. In this post, I will briefly compare them as a data store for your Cloudflare Workers functions.
In this blog post, we will implement a waiting room page for your website.
High number of visitors on your website is a good thing generally but not always. Sudden high traffic may easily overwhelm your applications which may disrupt your services completely. Waiting room is a solution that helps you to control the traffic and protect your resources during traffic surges. Cloudflare Waiting Room is a good solution but it is only available for business and enterprise accounts. Don’t worry, in this blog we will build a waiting room for any type of web site using Cloudflare Workers and Upstash Redis.
Upstash started its journey with a mission to be the best database option for your AWS Lambda functions. Meanwhile, we discovered another great option to build your serverless functions: Cloudflare Workers. It is an exciting product because it promises a better latency all over the world with a lower cost and no cold starts. But it has many limitations when compared to AWS Lambda. Extra limitations makes the list of database options shorter. We saw this as an opportunity to position Upstash as a great solution for the question: CF Workers are stateless. Where should I keep my data then?
In this article, I will compare AWS Lambda and Cloudflare Workers based on my experiences and observations during developing applications to showcase Upstash use cases.
Both are similar in that they provide a serverless runtime for developers to run their functions. But there are many differences between them and I will list them in the following categories: Performance, Pricing, Runtime and Language Support, Tools and Resources, Ecosystem and Integrations, Configurability and Limitations. I will declare a winner for each category from my point of view.
It is a common need to restrict access to your website to some specific IPs. In this post, I will show how to implement an IP Allow/Deny list using Edge computing. Let me first introduce Cloudflare Workers.
Cloudflare workers are quite popular technology in recent years. It became publicly available in 2017 and Cloudflare KV storage became publicly available in 2019.