Cloudflare Makes it Easy for Developers to Build Any Application on Its Industry-Leading Serverless Platform
November 15, 2021 at 09:00 am EST
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Cloudflare, Inc. announced new tools and integrations to make developing applications simple, flexible, and fast. Now developers will be able to connect to their existing databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, Prisma, or Postgres alongside Cloudflare?s own tools like Durable Objects to easily and intelligently store and access data at the edge. This solves a major problem for developers?managing data?and makes it easier than ever to build any type of application, no matter the complexity, compliance requirements, or performance needs. The promise of serverless computing is to allow developers to focus on writing code and solving challenges for their customers, without having to worry about configuring and managing infrastructure. However, while a serverless environment is meant to make development easier, solutions that exist still create challenges for developers when it comes to working with data. Connecting or migrating databases to serverless solutions is a complex challenge that developers have to solve, taking time and energy away from building applications. Cloudflare is making it easy for developers to connect their existing databases to Cloudflare Workers? and also allowing developers to use new and innovative data technologies to utilize data.
Cloudflare, Inc. is a connectivity cloud company. The Company is a global cloud services provider that delivers a range of services to businesses of all sizes and in all geographies. Its network serves as a scalable, unified control plane to deliver security, performance, and reliability across on-premise, hybrid, cloud, and software-as-a-service applications. Its integrated suite of products consists of solutions for an organization's external-facing infrastructure, such as Websites, applications, and application programming interfaces to deliver security and reliability; solutions to serve an organization's internal resources, such as internal networks and devices; developer-based solutions, and consumer offerings. Its security products include Web Application Firewall, Bot Management, SSL/TLS Encryption, and Secure Origin Connection. Its performance products include Content Delivery, Intelligent Routing, Content Optimization, and Others. It is also focused on multicloud networking.