How Cloudflare Reinvents Serverless at Global Scale with Josh Howard

Summary

Josh Howard, Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudflare, joins Kostas and Nitay to discuss Cloudflare's innovative serverless platform, Durable Objects, and Workers. 

Learn how Cloudflare enables developers to build stateful applications with global scale, consistency, and simplicity at the network edge.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Background
02:01 Journey into Storage Systems
04:24 Cloudflare's Evolution and Developer Platform
06:29 Understanding Durable Objects
08:57 Durable Objects in Modern App Development
11:18 Use Cases for Cloudflare's Developer Platform
13:36 Building Agents and Real-Time Applications
16:19 Developer Experience and Migration Strategies
25:09 Exploring Workflow Systems: OLAP vs Applications
26:47 Cloudflare's Development Platform: Future Offerings for Data Professionals
28:42 Transitioning from Data Processing to Application Development
31:37 The Impact of LLMs on System Design
33:44 Serverless Platforms: Challenges and Limitations
40:01 Future Directions: Cloudflare's Storage Relay Service and Global Expansion

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