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Introducing Python Workers
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Years from now, we’ll look back on this week as the start of the decline of AWS/GCP/Azure being used directly by product companies.
@Cloudflare
going full-stack and
@planetscaledata
going GA are the inflection points.
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We built a platform to run containers across Cloudflare’s network.
It’s different. It’s schedules workloads globally — you don’t deal with regions. It fits with Anycast (of course). And we're integrating it with Workers and Durable Objects — use the right tool for the job, every
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Once you see what can be done with Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects, there is no going back to the old ways of building things.
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A showcase of traditionally hard CSS problems, easily solved using flexbox.
http://t.co/zZzbmKe9C7
via
@philwalton
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JavaScript-native RPC.
- JS language standards only, no special protocols
- define a public class method, call it from another Worker
- each named export in your Worker can provide its own RPC interface
- works with Durable Objects too
@KentonVarda
🤯
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We are hiring PMs right now to grow the Workers platform
@Cloudflare
.
Particularly if you are an engineer who loves talking to customers — you should apply. I can tell you from personal experience that it is the most rewarding role I've ever had.
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The problem with the WSB fiasco is not that similar groups of people will repeat this organically. It’s that it’s shown the world that the disinformation vulnerability is 100x larger financially than many realized, and provided a playbook to exploit it.
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We build our own products on Workers.
We needed each of these ourselves for production safety. So might you:
- deploy changes gradually
- upload source maps
- new rate limiting API
- new autogenerated API SDKs
- better o11y for Durable Objects
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We have to stop thinking of climate change as a linear or even step function change. It’s exponential. See recursive example below.
So, the heat wave in Canada was so strong that it created extreme wildfire conditions, and when the fires started the heat plumes were so strong they created severe thunderstorms, which are so strong they're creating lightning that's sparking new fires
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Nice comfy bus routes from the suburbs w/bus-only lanes zooming past car traffic are the best gateway drug we have.
Cashing in on the revolt against "ban cars" discourse from last week by debunking some common myths on how to make transit popular. Including a cautionary tale for urbanists about the racial ramifications of freeway removal amid diversifying suburbs.
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JavaScript frameworks provide their own Node.js local dev servers.
The Workers runtime provides built-in APIs to D1, R2, KV and more.
You just want local dev to work like prod.
We figured it out — with framework maintainers help. Here's how we did it:
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When you deploy a serverless function, you should only be charged for time spent actually doing work.
The status quo of GB-s based pricing has charged you for time spent waiting, while your application sits idle.
We're fixing that.
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Have a new way to deploy Cloudflare Workers gradually — split traffic between two versions of your Worker. Who wants to be the first to try?
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It's been incredible to watch
@boristane
and the
@baselimehq
team join Cloudflare and ship at ⚡ speed. All of this runs on Cloudflare infra and is in the Cloudflare dash. "Hit the ground running" doesn't begin to describe it.
This has been a big ask for a while: persistent logging just landed for Workers.
Write events directly from your Worker without having to push them elsewhere. Search across them. Filter down to find the ones that matter.
Enable it with one line of config:
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Don’t sleep on new Durable Objects pricing for WebSocket messages
(hibernate instead)
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The internet is preventing long-run inflation by giving Americans current, detailed information. People are postponing spending because they know there are esoteric supply chain shortages. Information we take for granted today would have been inaccessible in almost any prior era.
New from me at THE OVERSHOOT:
The Case for Patience on Inflation
<-- Consumers and investors are currently *behaving* as if they believe that the recent price spikes are a temporary phenomenon driven by the pandemic.
But watch out if that changes.
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Workers is a *web-interoperable* runtime, and we're taking that to the next level by making the WebGPU API available
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From a Cloudflare Worker:
- route inbound email
- reply to emails 🆕
- send emails to your team 🆕
…all while supporting ARC (RFC 8617) for higher deliverability by preserving auth through a proxy 🆕, and MTA-STS to avoid the MITM perils of STARTTLS 🆕
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@sperand_io
@elithrar
@Cloudflare
Two things here:
1. We are working on (couldn't quite make it for this week) a change where when you call another Worker via a service binding, this won't be billed as a request. (so that pricing doesn't disincentivize breaking apart an app into many Workers) Coming soon.
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A hidden gem from today's Workers pricing announcement — the recently released Hibernation API for Durable Objects.
Maintain long-lived open connections, even while your Durable Object "sleeps" and you're not being billed.
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We vote for councilmembers to represent us. If
@carroll_fife
does not feel able to fulfill this responsibility, she should resign. We need leaders, not extra ballot measures and referendums.
Oakland City Councilmember
@carroll_fife
is "leaning towards supporting a ballot measure" that would let voters decide the fate of the A's waterfront ballpark proposal: Would require support of four other councilmembers to get on the ballot. A's oppose.
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Apple Intelligence with an evergreen summary of my email
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QOTD: “Like a restaurant using the whole chicken, we use the whole CPU”
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We brought the code to unlock your Next.js app
Cloudflare has officially joined OpenNext to help solve the nextjs vendor lock-in problem
they are now maintaining an official adapter that can deploy your nextjs app to cloudflare
we have a new discord, new github org, and we're adding support in sst soon
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Here's a first look at how it's built, why we built it, and how we use it ourselves:
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Why hasn’t anyone successfully built a JS version of ActiveRecord?
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Congrats to PG&E on entering the 2012 “big data” discourse. Can’t wait to hear what they’re doing with Hadoop next year!
PG&E is using more than 100 trillion data points to better understand wildfire-threat conditions and potential power shut-offs, PG&E leaders told the CPUC today.
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This interview with
@wintonARK
is so good.
Coming from SV / Bay Area, I think ARK’s cheat code is taking the best parts of venture capital and applying them to a liquid market of mature companies.
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Bonus o11y treat — even if you don't deploy your Worker gradually, in the next few days you'll be able to segment metrics, logs and errors by version of your Worker.
Here's a Worker that shipped a subtle set of changes that increased CPU time a bit:
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If the word "WinterCG" means something to you — you should apply for this job. Come push JavaScript forward with us.
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This anecdote from
@ConorDougherty
’s piece on ADUs in the suburbs is key. ADUs are a gateway drug to the business of creating new housing, to a whole industry of people who previously only ever bought and sold existing housing.
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This is what cops should be doing everywhere. This is how your keep people and cities safe.
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HRV MERV-13 filters at our house, before and after.
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You can now create TCP sockets from Cloudflare Workers!
If it speaks TCP, you can create a connection to it from Workers. Connect to databases and so much more.
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Love to see
@CloudflareDev
and
@intercom
on the same page. 🧡
Everything you need right here to get off the ground and start shipping and talking to customers.
Introducing Dev Starter Pack –– the essential startup starter pack
For our 14th birthday, we're bringing together tools for builders into one easy pack. Let's go build a better internet.
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One of the hardest and most valuable skills to build / maintain in software engineering is the ability to work at the bottom of the stack as systems engineer while still being a day-to-day user of dynamic languages, frameworks, etc.
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@IDoTheThinking
Applies to CRE too. I can’t find the link rn to the earnings transcript, but Boston Properties (big urban developer, mostly commercial but some residential) cited NIMBYs as a moat that makes their office buildings retain their value and sets a floor on psf office space costs.
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👏 to
@rauchg
and everyone at Vercel — I've wanted this forever, tried to build it back in 2014, but making it work with everyone's app and build was a hurdle we never got past.
This looks so polished. Can't wait to see how this approaches elements that are removed post-comment.
Shipping today:
@Vercel
has been giving you a dedicated Preview URL of your site for every PR you make. And now you can comment on those Previews just like you comment on a Google Doc or a Figma file
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@threepointone
To help front-end engineers, make back-end tools that front-end engineers love.
To help back-end engineers, make front-end tools that back-end engineers love.
F for F or B for B is tough - you compete with what your customer is best at and loves to work on. Lot of F for F rn.
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Peak
@TheStalwart
right here. Nails the framing in a way that turns heads but is entirely serious and credible, by repurposing dogma from finance history.
IT'S TIME FOR POWELL TO HAVE HIS BIG VOLCKER MOMENT
I have a piece out in the new
@BW
on the Fed and the macro landscape, and how sometimes you need to do the politically unpopular things.
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At this point, if you’re building a new consumer or business product and having to think about VPCs, IAM, instances, etc., you’re doing it wrong. Those are the raw compute materials for the platforms you should be building on top of.
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Residential landlords are stuck in a prisoners dilemma, and unlikely to cooperate with each other for mutual benefit without policy intervention.
Some great stuff in here from
@NathanTankus
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There is so much to be excited about in this. Proud of our team who built this.
I want to take a moment to talk about the WHIP and WHEP open standards we're using, and how they avoid the SDK lock-in problems that many developers I've talked to in this space have hit.
Today, we’re excited to announce in open beta that Cloudflare Stream now supports live video streaming over WebRTC, with sub-second latency, to unlimited concurrent viewers.
#BirthdayWeek
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I kept hearing good things about
@useOrb
, so it was fun to sit down with
@kshithappens
last week and talk shop on usage-based pricing and billing.
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two more things...
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Old Way / New Way
YC W23's
@evefanhq
helps developers privately capture, transform, and deliver customer events at internet scale.
Open source and self-hosted on Cloudflare Workers, Evefan offers 99.5% cheaper compute than alternatives.
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The SF Board of Supervisors is acting like the Mitch McConnell senate of local politics.
The Board of Supervisors’ decision to reject the nomination of Jane Natoli for the SFMTA Board is a deeply cynical move that represents what is wrong with San Francisco politics. And let’s be clear, this is simply about politics.
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One of my favorite things we're sharing this week is a 🔐🤓 one.
We're bringing our Key Transparency auditing system, which already audits WhatsApp's public key infrastructure, to a wider audience, with the long term goal of making public key transparency and auditing built into
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Teams of a dozen people are going to take down big software companies who look like empires. Prices will go down. Competition is going to be good for customers but brutal for many. Just like the early days of cloud and SaaS. Gonna be fun!
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Intercom absolutely cannonballed into the pool today with new products. Switch is exceptionally clever. The integration between Surveys and the rest of Intercom has so much potential. Congrats to everyone who worked on these! Super impressed.
We're excited to share 3 exciting product announcements!
1️⃣ Switch: switch from phone and Messenger with one click 📲
2️⃣ Next-Generation Inbox: our fastest, most efficient inbox ever 💨
3️⃣ Surveys: turn customer insights into action with automatic workflows ☑️
#NewAtIntercom
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…or you can use
@CloudflareDev
Workers for Platforms 🚀
My advice to people thinking about building some sort of “run code in the cloud” startup: only do it if you’re genuinely excited about spending 5y+ thinking about load balancing, page faults, cloud security, DNS, …
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Traditionally a company of like 10 engineers is like “holy shit we are so productive this is fun” but then also “we have too much stuff to manage and we are not the right humans for grown-up software scaling and oh crap our free AWS credits just ran out and the bill is WHAT?”
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Anycast keeps on winning
Cloudflare Calls' TURN server uses anycast to eliminate the need to think about regions or scaling, improving reliability of WebRTC applications.
#BirthdayWeek
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People always put
@ARKInvest
into the active manager or thematic investing bucket.
They’re really doing something quite different that’s still misunderstood — understand the future (5+ years) and work backwards to find skew and unfair advantages in the present.
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.
@NathanTankus
’ Substack > undergrad macro econ 101.
When you can learn more from a few paid newsletters than a $$$$ undergrad semester, the system has already crumbled. No amount of Zoom lectures and e-learning software can reassemble the house of cards.
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Really happy for Intercom today. GPT in a real support product, trained only on your own Help Center articles, with zero setup required.
2. Until today, GPT would hallucinate—i.e. confidently lie. It didn’t even know it was lying. You could never use it for customer support. But Fin knows when it doesn’t know. And it pulls its human colleagues in seamlessly.
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Is there a good thread somewhere on why we’re seeing such low wind? It’s really unusual for the Bay and the forecasts so far have all missed.
Smokey and hazy conditions to continue, with all of our sites reporting visibility ranging between 1 and 3 miles.
#CAWildfires
#CAwx
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I understand why people choose per-seat pricing. Have been through many debates. It makes sense for products where every employee needs the product (ex: workforce identity, zero trust, etc.). But for a product that spreads internally, it is counterproductive.
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Companies are already hitting this point later due to gradual improvements and more specialized vendors. But serverless on Cloudflare is a step function change. It’s the “Run less software” mantra on drugs. Typescript all the way down, no AWS account needed.
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Build software that runs on the Internet, not in a datacenter.
perf discussions about "edge" vs "origin" assume that the provider situates your compute in ONE place (per project/script/whatever). What if you could write code naturally in one file, and let the provider locate parts of it depending on the user?
read:
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Leverage per engineer is going to go bananas. Engineering teams and therefore companies will be able to be much smaller. This is the same thing that happened in the transition to cloud, and then the leverage growth rate declined as complexity and expectations increased.
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Exact object types in
@flowtype
are such an amazing refactoring tool for big apps. Worth any pain of upgrading in order to start using them.
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Github copilot really excels at building GraphQL APIs, especially when it has a database schema to reference in the project directory. Impressed how many times I've been able to just keep hitting Tab and it mostly works.
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🖐️🎤
Long story short: we offer the fastest developer platform on the market. Let’s talk about how we build our network to help make you faster, and then we’ll get into how that translates to our developer platform.
#DeveloperWeek
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Serverless has felt like a toy for almost a decade. You are probably reading this tweet skeptically, having been burned before. But it’s ready now. I’ve been building edge-only for a few months and it is ready for real full-stack software.
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@RebeccaForBART
@kk_levine
@TaplinTerry
@thebestjasmine
California (left), Oakland (right). Starr on the 90s and early 00s is one of his best. It’s name was M.U.D. tells the story of EBMUD and water history really well. Doris Sloan on SF Bay Geology is 🤯. Babitz and Didion of course.
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Think about all the time you’ve seen burned on k8s, caching, db proxies and load balancing, zero-downtime deployments, access roles, etc. then multiply by how much all this slows down engineers building actual features. We try to minimize this, but can’t zero it out.
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The successor to Rails will be built on Cloudflare.
In a world rich with JavaScript frameworks, it still feels like we're chasing "full-stack" solutions we've come to love in Rails, Laravel. Superflare demonstrates how this might work if you go all-in on one platform's primitives
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AsyncLocalStorage is the API you don't know you've been missing all this time, especially if you do mostly front-end dev.
ICYMI — Workers now supports a growing subset of Node.js APIs, with no polyfills required.
Here are a few of the things you can now do…
Use AsyncLocalStorage to access an environment variable or other context without globals or passing params throughout your app:
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Seat-based pricing reveals the truth, that
@zeithq
sells engineering productivity, not (just) hosting.
Some good work here mapping price to value. 👏🏼
@rauchg
A simpler pricing model is here.
◆ Unlimited Bandwidth, Builds, and Execution (under fair use policy)
◆ No more unexpected bills from spikes
◆ New optional features for Teams
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Building at the edge will change team structures, roles and jobs just as much as the move from on-prem to cloud. When I think about past engineering orgs I’ve been part of, about half of the people and teams would have to dramatically change their roles and day-to-day work.
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@sperand_io
@elithrar
@Cloudflare
2. With Durable Objects, each RPC "session" is billed as one request. Example – you call a public method of the DO class, this creates an RPC session. If you call a method on the stub that you get back, that's part of the same session. Docs here:
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This has totally upended the way I think about databases
I have a hot take: Synchronous storage I/O is good actually. Especially when it's SQLite running in Durable Objects. Which we launched today. Here's my blog post explaining how this can be really really fast -- and also easier to reason about.
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Talking to traditional, centralized databases without adding latency is one of the hardest challenges of moving to applications to run in serverless functions. Most of us are all used to co-located DB and compute.
Hyperdrive is our answer.
Connect Hyperdrive to your database with one line of code and voilà:
connections and queries get faster!
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No one better than
@FredKSchott
and team when it comes to building community while still keeping things dead simple.
Astro + Cloudflare Pages is *the* answer to “I miss the days of just building websites with PHP”. And it’s faster than everything else.
Astro 1.0 is out now!
Astro is the web framework for building fast, content-focused websites. Performance powered by Astro's next-gen island architecture 🏝️
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@DarwinBondGraha
“Subsidizing” is editorializing. Redevelopment financing like this is like issuing a bond that converts as future tax revenue far in excess of cost. It is the city betting on itself. Fine to critique whether the bet is worth the risk (will ⚾️ be popular?), but it’s not a subsidy.
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Every PM on our team is an engineer. I report to an engineer. She reports to an engineer. We pride ourselves on deeply understanding not just what we build but how it's built, and what that architecture unlocks in the long-term.
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Browsertech Digest from
@drifting_corp
has the highest signal to noise ratio of any newsletter I subscribe to. Gets right to the point, and every time I learn about a new interesting project that's pushing the bounds.
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0 kWh net grid use today during peak. 100% electric house. Pre-cooling, decent insulation, a battery, a bit of solar and some trees.
Lot of pieces, house was all gas when we bought it, but entirely possible to be net zero when it matters during peak demand, even in an old house.
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This is why we bet on open standards at Cloudflare. Make a bigger pie rather than fighting over the same tiny slice. Still so much room on the Internet for more people to win together.
We have now extended our WebRTC open source components to also support the WHEP protocol and tested it end-to-end with
@Cloudflare
#streaming
#webrtc
#WHEP
#Cloudflare
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The point of a bike lane is to create *physical* barriers so that even a drunk driver couldn’t kill someone on a bike.
Fife treating this death as inevitable says a lot about her views on pedestrian and bike safety.
@ptraughber
@teresahammerl
@LibbySchaaf
@rrinoak
I was out last night and the celebratory energy combined with alcohol and people were wilin out about the Warriors win. How would a bike lane saved this life if some people were acting recklessly? I
am mortified about this death and have been working
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If you have tried an NPM package on Workers before and hit a wall — you should try again 😉✅
We’ve made it way, way easier to use the Node.js packages you know and love when building on Workers by dramatically expanding our Node.js API compatibility.
This is a big part of our effort to make shipping applications with Workers a no brainer!
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This is the bar for scale and speed that is permanently embedded in the back of my head. I think about it almost every time release process, test times, or multiple services come up. It's the bar that anything serverless — which is all too often "micro-everything" — has to clear.
As people seem interested here are some more fun numbers from our
@rails
app:
- we deployed the app 46 times today (well, 46 PRs merged but some shipments likely ended up being deployed together)
- test runs take 5 mins (at a concurrency of 500)
- we max out just over 1M SQL
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@tim_mulshine
Starting to worry that while SF turns the corner and ousts incompetent leaders, Oakland city politics are getting worse and inheriting the SF BOS politics. This is the kind of thing that I associate with SF.
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If Kevin de Leon is elected mayor, the Bay and LA will have diverged on housing issues. Despite all our tiny annoying NIMBY cities, the powerful cities in the Bay all have pro-housing leaders, and LA will have an Eastside anti-housing mayor + the politics of the Westside.
I hate to inform you that
@kdeleon
is an imbecile on housing issues which you would think would disqualify him from being mayor of the second largest city in the country.
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.
@TeleportInc
is amazing. Accurate data, outstanding design, product answers every question I've had when moving:
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Earlier this year I talked to about a dozen prefab ADU companies. Abodu was the clear winner — they were confident, fast and had a plan for everything. We decided to do some other work on our house first, but they’re my first call when we’re ready. Category winner in the Bay.
As you might know, I’ve spent six years looking at housing affordability in California. I’m excited to announce
@initialized
’s investment in Abodu:
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Corollary: we should make domestic migration easier (by building housing to lower rent, improving safety net, encouraging risk taking) so that everyone can move around and find a place they love. There is nothing more insufferable than a city everyone lives in but complains about
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For years our customers asked us nearly every week how we built the tours in our own new customer onboarding. Today we’re taking that early idea and launching a new product that’s orders of magnitude more powerful, and is deeply integrated with all of Intercom.
🎉 Today we are launching Product Tours – guided experiences that help you onboard customers more effectively and drive better product adoption.
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@DCisChillin
I am here for the annex Piedmont, turn off their water until they share a tax base, movement
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I rarely tweet anymore, but these days when I do it’s because someone on my team did something awesome.
@DanoHusar
has led a big effort to make our web Messenger accessible at
@intercom
, which we just announced today
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Are you ready for some JAVASCRIPT on Thursday???
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