Edge Computing

Answer-first: Build a real-time shopping cart using Cloudflare D1, Durable Objects, and Workers. Full schema, TypeScript code, and conflict-free concurrent updates. The traditional shopping cart architecture is a familiar set of tradeoffs: Redis for session storage, PostgreSQL for order data, and a backend API tier that coordinates between them. It works, but it introduces latency proportional to the distance between the user and your datacenter, requires operational overhead for Redis cluster management, and struggles with globally concurrent cart edits from the same user across multiple devices. ...

Answer-first: Two paths to Cloudflare: building a full-stack edge site with Astro and putting WordPress behind Cloudflare CDN. Real config, costs, and gotchas. Running a content site on a traditional VPS or a managed Node.js host is fine until it isn’t. You pay for compute that sits idle 95% of the time, you manage SSL renewals, you worry about cold starts, and you watch your Lighthouse score suffer because your origin is in Singapore while your readers are in Frankfurt. ...