Curious, what kind of workloads do you find valuable to be out on the edge of a CDN?
In the case of cloudfront I have only ever used it to hack up some auth controls for something real quick and dirty.
In the case of cloudfront I have only ever used it to hack up some auth controls for something real quick and dirty.
The fabled iot, self-driving car examples, as well as services like Stadia could never be run in a worker, which is why for Workers at least, speed isn’t a primary advantage.
One would still have to run databases with regional sharding in the critical locations (I'm thinking Crockroach even though I've never ran it myself). And if you're already running a database you could be running code there too, and just proxy requests through to yourself in the closest location (maybe this is what all the rage is about with workers, proxying differently depending on origin region), but i could see this being done without Turing complete language support.
EDIT: I do see how Cloudflare KV could be used as the caching layer and help there, but that's all i see. I would love to hear how someone else can/has made use of this.
I've found Fastly's Varnish recipes interesting though: https://developer.fastly.com/solutions/recipes