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Kenton Varda

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Tech lead for @Cloudflare Workers, former Protobuf guy, author of and Cap'n Proto, builds LAN-party optimized houses ()

Austin, TX

Joined November 2008

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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Kenton Varda

5 months

Folks, I did it again. I made another RPC system. I know, it's a problem. But bear with me! I think this is the best possible JavaScript RPC. It has all the power of Cap'n Proto with no need to write schemas. There is almost no boilerplate at all.

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We've added JavaScript-native RPC to Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare Workers now features a built-in RPC (Remote Procedure Call) system for use in Worker-to-Worker and Worker-to-Durable Object communication, with absolutely minimal boilerplate. We've...

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Europe: We are banning egress fees. Google:

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Jesus Christ @zoom_us , you've apparently let a whole school in Chile sign up for a paid account using my e-mail address, because you never verified it. I went to create my own account, it said I had one, so I "forgot password", and now I own this school's admin account.

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Reminder that Judge William Haskell Alsup, who first heard Oracle v. Google, actually LEARNED JAVA in order to make an informed ruling, while these higher-court jokers are relying on analogies to Harry Potter and grocery stores.

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How the judge on Oracle v. Google taught himself to code

Judge William Alsup taught himself to code for fun in the 1980s. Now he's the judge on Silicon Valley's biggest cases.

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Wow. This SanDisk SSD model fails at 40,000 hours exactly. Primary and backup servers each had RAID-1 and they all failed at the same time. When setting up a RAID-1 mirror, always try to pair two SSDs from entirely different chipset makers.

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My husband correctly guessed what caused today's Hacker News failure. He'd experienced it before.

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@joseph_h_garvin Yeah I don't actually think they were trying to get around the ban, I just think the timing is funny.

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TIL Swedish time format is exactly the ideal time format, that is, "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS". In JavaScript, you can do `date.toLocaleString("sv")` to format this way. I wonder if it's safe to assume this will never change...

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2 years

It's here! workerd: The Open Source Cloudflare Workers runtime.

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Introducing workerd: the Open Source Workers runtime

workerd is the JavaScript/Wasm runtime code that powers Cloudflare Workers, now open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

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The problem is that my e-mail address is temporal at gmail. It was my teenage gamer tag. I need to change it. But it turns out "temporal" means "temporary" in Spanish. So Spanish-speaking people all over use it as a placeholder address!

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Kenton Varda

2 years

Very proud to announce we'll be open sourcing the Cloudflare Workers runtime under Apache 2.

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The next chapter for Cloudflare Workers: open source

As the first announcement of Platform Week, today Cloudflare is announcing the open sourcing of the Workers runtime under the Apache-2.0 license!

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4 years

Apparently, 44 of 50 Republican senators would vote that the sky is red of they thought it would benefit them politically.

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So I've spent the last ~three months writing a new distributed storage engine based on SQLite and it has been FUN!

D1: We turned it up to 11

We've been heads down iterating on D1, and we've just shipped a major new version that's substantially faster, more reliable, and introduces Time Travel: the ability to restore a D1 database to any...

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@zoom_us 89 users, 19 licensed, 44 active. 190 meetings since the account was created a little over a month ago. I have all their names, e-mail addresses, activity logs...

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4 years

Here it is! Workers Durable Objects -- Serverless that's Stateful.

Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless

Durable Objects provide a truly serverless approach to storage and state: consistent, low-latency, distributed, yet effortless to maintain and scale. They also enable coordination and real-time...

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3 years

Back in the mid-2000's I was working on a core internal protocol used in Google search back-end for transmitting search results, and we had a place in the protocol where any team could add their own extra data about a result. I named this place "stuff".

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1 year

We are approaching the Google UI design solstice. All the corners are approaching peak roundness. Then over several years they will become more square again, until the cycle starts anew. Watch for the buttons that achieve full pill shape, they won't be here long.

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This is a big deal: possibly the first true edge-optimized Python runtime. It's based on the CPython interpreter (the one most people use), but multiple applications can share the same copy of the interpreter securely. How? The key is Wasm dynamic linking.

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Brendan Irvine-Broque

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Introducing Python Workers

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2 years

This is a product I'm really excited about! I like to call it Functions as a Service as a Service. It allows any SaaS service to make itself programmable. It's a bit tricky to understand so let me explain with some examples.

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Announcing Workers for Platforms: making every application on the Internet more programmable

Announcing Workers for Platforms, our tool suite to help make any product programmable, and help our customers deliver value to their customers and developers instantaneously.

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Why? Probably because "it hurts conversions" and "it's the user's fault if they signed up with someone else's address; no one else is harmed." This needs to change, so I take every opportunity to complain loudly.

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4 years

I'm apparently not even allowed to delete my account because I "belong" to this organization! I'm apparently not the owner, just an admin, but I cannot remove myself!

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Meanwhile because I used Google login, Zoom has merged my personal details from my Google account into this account.

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After I open sourced Protocol Buffers, the promo committee denied me for promotion (from Senior to Staff) because my packet contained no peer reviews from more-senior engineers who worked closely with me. (There were no such engineers.)

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Patrick McKenzie

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On engineering career progression at Google: This is the best public description of an important process at Big Daddy G that I've seen. It tracks with what I've heard in less public conversations.

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For the record, this stuff happens to me all the time. Here's Discord:

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Kenton Varda

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Tried to create a @discordapp account only to find that they had already let someone else create an account with my e-mail address, which I had to hijack and delete first. Remember folks, you need to verify e-mail addresses BEFORE you let people use your service!

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4 years

I usually don't get as much attention when I complain about this stuff. I guess Zoom is a popular target, so this thread is more popular than others. But it's a widespread problem. Many, many online services just do not verify e-mail addresses.

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3 years

This was a fun one.

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4 years

To the Security Dunning-Krugers chastising me for not following responsible disclosure: Responsible disclosure is for protecting vulnerabilities that other people could maliciously exploit, which this isn't. You are not as smart as you think you are.

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2 years

Cloudflare's new Austin office opened today. I worked a regular day from the office for the first time in three years and, I know this is not a popular opinion on Twitter but, actually, it was really nice and I want to go back.

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3 years

This story was brought to you by the function `fetch(req, env, ctx)`. Sigh.

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Kenton Varda

3 years

I actually kind of love admitting when I screwed up. It actually feels good! I mean, not the screwing up part, but the admitting it part. Highly recommend it.

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Narinder Singh

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@kennethn +1000 for @Cloudflare hiring people that admit mistakes and take ownership even when no one is watching.

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In fact, "stuff" was a better name. If I said "put it in the context", there were like 15 things in the codebase called "context", but "put it in stuff", well, there's only one thing called "stuff". Because no one else was brave/silly enough to use that name.

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2 years

me: These language models are just plagiarism engines, they don't produce original content. [plays with ChatGPT for a while] me: fuck. what the fuck

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Kenton Varda

4 years

Once I was e-mailed 300 phone bills all at once from a Spanish telecom. I also get lots of Spanish-speaking people sending me resumes. Students in Latin America register for classes under my address all the time.

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Kenton Varda

4 years

@ademrudin @whitequark EPA: Noooooo you can't just pump plutonium through leaky pipes and dump it on the floor, you can't just seal contaminated rooms and store waste barrels in the corridors nooooooo DOE: Hahaha geiger counter go brrrrrrrr

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4 years

Wow, what an amazingly clear demonstration of the limitations of machine learning.

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Chicken3gg 🐋

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@tg_bomze 🤔🤔🤔

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Here's Cox cable:

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Ugh, it looks like @CoxCalifornia let "Juan" from Santa Barbara sign up using my e-mail address (temporal at gmail dot com) and now I'm getting all his damned cable bills. @CoxComm provides me no way to remove my e-mail address from this account. You need to verify addresses!

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My unpopular opinion for today: Reverting the entire history of contributions by UMN to the Linux kernel means reverting a lot of genuine security *fixes*, which will now be exploitable. This is not the right way to prove a point. This hurts Linux.

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4 years

Tried to create a @discordapp account only to find that they had already let someone else create an account with my e-mail address, which I had to hijack and delete first. Remember folks, you need to verify e-mail addresses BEFORE you let people use your service!

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9 months

And for those confused why the EU would do this... I'm not an expert, but I think the point is that some cloud providers use artificially high egress fees to prevent people from migrating their data out, which is anti-competitive. The policy is meant to promote fair competition.

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5 years

We've open sourced the streaming HTML parser behind @Cloudflare Workers' HTMLRewriter API. It's written in @rustlang ! Github: Blog post:

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A History of HTML Parsing at Cloudflare: Part 2

This post describes a Rust streaming HTML rewriter/parser with a CSS-selector based API, being used as the back-end for the Cloudflare Workers HTMLRewriter.

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4 years

@TProphet @munin @zoom_us This isn't an exploitable security bug. Responsible disclosure wouldn't accomplish anything here.

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4 years

And done. After 1.5 years of work (and even longer thinking about it and arguing for it), my favorite Workers feature is ready to launch. (We're actually launching TWO huge features...)

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9 months

I don't have a soundcloud but I do work for @Cloudflare which has had free egress all along. If you hate egress fees check us out. (FWIW I don't actually think Google is trying to avoid the regulation here, I think it was just an amusingly-timed change.)

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2 years

Today I replaced the nginx instance on the / origin server with the soon-to-be-open-source Cloudflare Workers runtime. Converting an old, crusty nginx config to JavaScript felt pretty good TBH.

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Kenton Varda

4 months

In case you were still wondering whether Cloudflare Workers can scale to your traffic...

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Benjamin Yule

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That moment when an internal team drops 12.5M requests per second on your service without telling you and nobody notices for 3 hours because it just works…

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@magpiekilljoy It's OK, there's a guy you can pay to figure out the bill for you. Though he makes you copy all the numbers from the menu yourself, all he does is add them for you. He'll use some of the money you pay him to bribe the restaurant owner into continuing to not give people bills.

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Kenton Varda

6 years

My project, Cloudflare Workers, launches today, exactly one year after I joined @Cloudflare ! Run JavaScript server code directly on Cloudflare's edge network (127 locations and growing rapidly).

Everyone can now run JavaScript on Cloudflare with Workers

We believe the true dream of cloud computing is that your code lives in the network itself. Your code doesn't run in "us-west-4", it runs everywhere.

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7 years

My project is public! I'm making it so you can run Javascript Service Workers on Cloudflare's edge network.

Introducing Cloudflare Workers: Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge

You'll soon be able to deploy JavaScript to Cloudflare's edge, written against an API similar to Service Workers.

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Kenton Varda

4 years

I'd like to apologize to @zoom_us , @alexstamos , etc. for the fact that people are misinterpreting this as a security vulnerability, when it's actually totally common practice across the whole industry and not exploitable. Also apologies that it happened on a Friday night. :/

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Me: dd, please write this ISO to this USB stick and *give me progress updates*. dd: On it! dd: Update! All 2.7GB copied in 1 second! Now waiting for close()... * dd waits silently for half an hour while the kernel flushes the page cache. Me: Great. Thanks, dd. Good show.

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3 years

A very wonky blog post. We noticed many Durable Objects apps had classic storage bugs (race conditions, unconfirmed writes, long waits, etc.). Instead of telling people to fix their code, we fixed the system, so intuitively-written code is now correct.

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Durable Objects: Easy, Fast, Correct — Choose three

When multiple clients access the same storage concurrently, race conditions abound. Durable Objects can make it easier. We recently rolled out improvements to Durable Objects that automatically...

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Kenton Varda

3 years

@gabbifish @kennethn Yep!

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Kenton Varda

4 years

Sad to hear about all the amazing engineers laid off from Mozilla today. The Cloudflare Workers team is building a new kind of compute platform on top of web tech, and we need systems engineers and JavaScript/Wasm wonks. DM me or email kenton at cloudflare. #MozillaLifeboat

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Source (yep, it's me):

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3 years

I made a little optimization to the Workers Runtime that means Workers don't have to stay in memory if they're just proxying bytes verbatim. We decided to pass on the savings to you.

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A Workers optimization that reduces your bill

Recently, we made an optimization to the Cloudflare Workers runtime which reduces the amount of time Workers need to spend in memory. We're passing the savings on to you for all your Unbound Workers

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3 years

So @bufbuild sent me this trophy for... arguing on the internet, lol.

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3 years

My first academic paper! It's about Spectre and Cloudflare Workers, co-authored with @tugraz folks and friends including @marv0x90 , @borrello_pietro , @0xhilbert , @lavados , @misc0110 , and Thomas Schuster.

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Cloudflare

3 years

Dynamic Process Isolation: Research by Cloudflare and @tugraz . #CloudflareResearch 🔬

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4 years

Here it is. 5000+ words about Workers security architecture, including discussion of V8 bugs and Spectre. I feel like it's still only scratching the surface, though.

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Kenton Varda

3 years

TIL `git diff a..b` and `git diff a...b` do completely different things. The former (2 dots) shows you the diff between a and b. The latter (3 dots) finds the last common commit of a and b, then shows the diff from *that* to b.

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Kenton Varda

3 years

I'm a big fan of the Linux kernel philosophy that changes should never ever break userspace. Workers takes the same philosophy. But what if we need to fix a bug that people inadvertently depend on? Here's how we're dealing with that...

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On the #CloudflareWorkers team, we have a policy: A change to the Workers Runtime must never break an application that is live in production. By @KentonVarda

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2 years

I would say the point is crucial *and* samsung!

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This point is so crucial. once you face this problem it seems so obvious. But vendors are reluctant to comply.

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4 years

Witness my Slow Descent into Madness debugging a GitHub Action.

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Kenton Varda

3 years

PSA: In the gmail compose window, if you hold shift, the "full screen" button becomes a "pop out" button, which is like 1000x better but almost no one knows about it.

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4 years

Really didn't expect this rant would go viral when my previous similar rants about other companies doing the same thing never did.

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2 years

Overheard: "The error is happening on line 58. However, line 58 is 100KB long."

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Kenton Varda

3 years

I suppose most systems use a word like "context", "environment", "data", "info", "headers", "metadata"... but those words really aren't any more descriptive, now are they! They are just stuff!

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4 years

This tech is really cool. With the absurd amount of data web sites want to download these days, it turns out rendering the site on the edge and streaming down vector graphics draw commands instead is faster. Yeah I didn't believe it either -- until I tried it.

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Introducing Cloudflare Browser Isolation beta. #ZeroTrustWeek 🌐

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A minute after creating my own account @discordapp apparently decided my activity was suspicious and forced me to go through extra security checks including verifying my e-mail. Wish it had done that to the other guy.

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@whitequark Oh and this! This is my favorite! Oh man, memories...

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The year is 2022. Turning off my TV also automatically turns off my stereo receiver. Turning on my TV turns on the PS5 but *not* the stereo. Turning on my PS5 turns on the TV (not stereo), but turning it off does not turn off the TV (nor stereo). I still need three remotes.

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I paid off a loan and, as a result, my FICO credit score *dropped* 70 points. Credit scores are a protection racket, they punish you for not using credit.

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Kenton Varda

4 years

So tired of seeing people compare gzipped JSON to uncompressed binary formats (e.g. protobuf, capnp, msgpack, etc.). You can gzip binary formats too, you know! Serialization and compression are different things.

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Workers' `env` contains live objects, not just strings. People kept asking why, so I wrote a blog post! This design isn't just some weird artistic choice, it actually has profound benefits in terms of developer experience and -- surprise! -- security.

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Why Workers environment variables contain live objects

Bindings don't just reduce boilerplate. They are a core design feature of the Workers platform which simultaneously improve developer experience and application security in several ways. Usually...

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Honestly these announcements would have been worth five separate blog posts but you don't have time for that so we made it one blog post.

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Cloudflare

5 months

Today we are announcing five updates that put more power in your hands – Gradual Deployments, Source mapped stack traces in Tail Workers, a new Rate Limiting API, brand-new API SDKs, and updates to Durable Objects. Let's dive in! #DeveloperWeek

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Launch days are the best days. Nothing makes me happier than a well-received product launch that I worked hard on... 🥰

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5 years

Workers now has a streaming HTML modification API. Previously you had to parse the whole DOM (using a pure-JS library), modify, and serialize again. Our streaming API only invokes JavaScript for the elements you want to change and streams the rest through.

Not so static... Introducing the HTMLRewriter API Beta to Cloudflare Workers

Today, we’re excited to announce HTMLRewriter beta — a streaming HTML parser with an easy to use selector based JavaScript API for DOM manipulation, available in the Cloudflare Workers runtime.

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@fasterthanlime Me: *Designs a compute platform that is legitimately an order of magnitude more cost-efficient than competition. Sets price accordingly.* Twitter: Those prices are impossible, it must be a conspiracy! Evil! Eeeevvviiiiillll! Sigh...

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3 years

PSA: You should enable three-way diffs for merge conflicts in git. It makes merge conflicts massively easier to understand, because the conflict marker will show you the original code in addition to the changed versions. `git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3`

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My 1-year-old, who doesn't speak yet, demanded to go out by bringing me my shoes (to my desk), lifting my feet up and putting them into the shoes, then bringing me my mask and shoving it in my hands.

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Narrator: It happened.

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Hey guys so apparently (by no action of my own) I just opened a new bank account at this cutting edge new bank, it's called the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara, just created today.

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Rant: If you can't implement infinite scroll in a way that doesn't cause me to lose my scroll position every time you add new items, then DO NOT IMPLEMENT INFINITE SCROLL.

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6 years

Cloudflare Workers now supports WebAssembly!

WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers

Today, we're extending Cloudflare Workers with support for WebAssembly. All Workers customers can now augment their applications with WASM at no additional cost.

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It's been a long time coming, but wrangler (the Cloudflare Workers CLI tool) now automatically uses workerd (the open source Workers runtime) for local development and debugging. Realistic simulation (it's the same code!) without using a remote service.

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Cloudflare

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We’re proud to announce the release of Wrangler v3 – the first version of Wrangler with local-by-default development, powered by Miniflare v3 and the open-source Workers workerd runtime. #DeveloperWeek

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Tons of Workers-related announcements today!

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The Cloudflare Blog

Get the latest news on how products at Cloudflare are built, technologies used, and join the teams helping to build a better Internet.

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My 3-year-old loaded the dishwasher.

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I'm building a house and I tell my contractor I don't want any smart shit in it and he's like "but you're a tech guy?" and I say "yes exactly".

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The latest on my internet situation.

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@KentonVarda

Kenton Varda

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I know this is heresy for some, but: We (Cloudflare) actually recommend that you do *not* probe for features in server-side code. It's actually better to check `navigator.userAgent`, as James says!

@jasnell

James M Snell

3 months

Did you know that when your code is running in @Cloudflare Workers, you can check the value of `navigator.userAgent` to *know* that it's running in Workers? The value is fixed as `Cloudflare-Workers` ...

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@KentonVarda

Kenton Varda

4 years

Aww yeah it's time to build a new workstation.

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@KentonVarda

Kenton Varda

6 years

Landed my first (and @Cloudflare 's second) @v8js patch. Drastically improves performance with lots of threads and/or lots of isolates.

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Kenton Varda

6 years

"Hmm I need to do some heap profiling. Let's link in tcmalloc for that." *Cloudflare Workers runtime gets 10% faster* "Oh geez, clearly I should have done that earlier."

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@KentonVarda

Kenton Varda

4 years

@ocdtrekkie Google's specific behavior is beside the point here. If creating a product interoperable with a competitor's product requires a license from them, that only entrenches monopolies. I don't want WINE and NES emulators to be ruled to be copyright violations.

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@KentonVarda

Kenton Varda

3 years

OMG this page not only explicitly refuses to let me paste (showing the red error message when I try), but also rejects values set via the devtools console. Whyyyyyyy do people do this? If you don't want me to typo, then don't make me type!

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@KentonVarda

Kenton Varda

3 years

"The site went from 1B requests per day to 30-35B requests per day... Through all of this, Cloudflare’s workers kept chugging along and my response times barely moved." That's over 400,000 requests per second, FWIW.

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@KentonVarda

Kenton Varda

5 years

@whitequark You should see how libprotobuf stringifies floats without losing precision... (this is... my code...)

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@KentonVarda

Kenton Varda

6 years

I ended up leaving Google altogether about 2-3 years later. There was no hope of being promoted or even being a tech lead again in my foreseeable future. So I started @SandstormIO instead. Ultimately it did not succeed as a business, but my career is in a much better place now.

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@KentonVarda

Kenton Varda

4 years

Well, it finally happened. I had to write some Go code.

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@KentonVarda

Kenton Varda

7 years

My project, Cloudflare Workers (which lets you run JavaScript on Cloudflare's servers), is now in open beta. Go try it.

Cloudflare Workers is now on Open Beta

Cloudflare Workers Beta is now open! Cloudflare Workers lets you run JavaScript on Cloudflare’s edge, deploying globally to over 120+ data centers around the world in less than 30 seconds. Your code...

blog.cloudflare.com

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@KentonVarda

Kenton Varda

4 years

@Shadow0pz @zoom_us @k8em0 It's not a vulnerability.

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