03/27/2026
Edge-First Architecture: Why Cloudflare Workers Changes How You Think About Design
After two decades of designing systems on Azure, I thought I understood distributed computing. I understood regions, availability zones, VNets, and the art of routing traffic intelligently across a global backbone. I understood serverless — Azure Functions, consumption plans, cold starts, and the eternal debate over premium tiers. Then I started building seriously with Cloudflare Workers, and I had to unlearn a surprising amount of what I thought I knew....
After two decades of designing systems on Azure, I thought I understood distributed computing. I understood regions, availability zones, VNets, and the art of routing traffic intelligently across a…