Blog promoting cloudflare workers - Serverless comparison

Hi, I am using Workers as part of my work in lightricks (a generative ai unicorn). We wrote a blog article about our positive experience with cloudflare, to be released in our companys website.
We are missing one section - The comparison of CF workers to aws serverless solution.
I was hoping you could help with this.
Should be quite short.

YYaronKar Hi, I am using Workers as part of my work in lightricks (a generative ai unicorn...

zegevlier•8/7/23, 8:08 AM

What specifically are you asking here? AWS serverless is quite different in operation to CF workers

YaronKarOP•8/7/23, 10:03 AM

In what ways?
They are both code running on demand, scalable, logging, production ready.
What would be selling points of workers vs Lambda?

zegevlier•8/7/23, 10:23 AM

Give this a read: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/how-workers-works/
It explains the different model of workers vs traditional serverless. This change in model allows for extremely low startup times and low cost

How Workers works · Cloudflare Workers docs

Though Cloudflare Workers behave similarly to JavaScript in the browser or in Node.js, there are a few differences in how you have to think about your …

YaronKarOP•8/7/23, 10:56 AM

Thanks!
We wrote a whole article about the workings of workers, including KV storage, code examples for a/b testing system, Working with wrangler and much more.
We hired an external editor before we released, which indicated we should have a paragraph comparing to other serverless solutions.
I can write it myself, but I thought your marketing team had a clear comparison (nothing really good came up on google)

Vero•8/7/23, 11:05 AM

nice, would love to read that article

Have you released it already?

YaronKarOP•8/7/23, 11:08 AM

Planning to release tomorrow, @Vero

I could share it with you. Am I correct to understand you are a CF employee (wanted to ask if you are a CF worker, but decided not to)

YYaronKar Planning to release tomorrow, @Vero 🐙 I could share it with you. Am I correct ...

Hello, I’m Allie!•8/7/23, 11:35 AM

We are all CF Workers(Working with Cloudflare’s products), but yes, Vero, and everyone with an Orange Cloud next to their username(or the @Cloudflare role) is a Cloudflare employee

YaronKarOP•8/7/23, 12:13 PM

Cool @Vero

Sent you privately

Vero•8/7/23, 12:50 PM

Awesome, thanks

YaronKarOP•8/7/23, 5:01 PM

Right now kind of stuck on this -
https://chat.openai.com/share/038903a7-a05c-4394-a8bf-7811d1a51d4c
I'm sure someone here can list some of CF positives compared to Lambda

ChatGPT

YYaronKar Right now kind of stuck on this - https://chat.openai.com/share/038903a7-a05c-4...

Isaac McFadyen•8/8/23, 11:54 AM

Main things IMO:

the free tier and pricing, Workers is way cheaper than Lambda
(no) cold start speed, Workers have zero cold-start time because of some optimizations + the runtime they use
scalability, workers can easily run more than 1000 concurrent requests which is the default cap of Lambda

Isaac McFadyen•8/8/23, 11:55 AM

For AI specifically, since there's often extra time associated with processing things on the AI side (inference time) cutting down on processing time outside of the model is always a good thing

IIsaac McFadyen For AI specifically, since there's often extra time associated with processing t...

Hello, I’m Allie!•8/8/23, 12:09 PM

Adding on to this, you could use Workers as a pre-processor for Lambda. The Worker will filter invalid requests, and optimize those that pass, then it will forward them to Sagemaker/Lambda for running the actual model

YaronKarOP•8/8/23, 12:54 PM

Thanks so much, will add it now, will post a bit later today

YaronKarOP•8/10/23, 12:07 PM

Just released:
https://medium.com/@skarlinski/87f8c65a42f8

Medium

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Blog promoting cloudflare workers - Serverless comparison

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