well, cron triggers are a bit different than normal invocations. don't really want to run a worker e

well, cron triggers are a bit different than normal invocations. don't really want to run a worker every minute and let it run for 6 hours

TTrojan Is it beneficial to ping workers at the beginning of a request to “pre-warm” the...

dave•5/27/25, 1:22 PM

Workers are so fast that I don’t really see a need to do that. The max startup time is 400ms, so I think you’d always be looking at <1 second at worst for a cold start.

WWalshy well, cron triggers are a bit different than normal invocations. don't really wa...

dave•5/27/25, 1:22 PM

That’s exactly what I want though.

WalshyOP•5/27/25, 1:22 PM

also we already pre-warm https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-cold-starts-with-cloudflare-workers/

Ddave That’s exactly what I want though. 😅

WalshyOP•5/27/25, 1:23 PM

haha, then your best bet is DO Alarms

WWalshy also we already pre-warm <https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-cold-starts-wi...

dave•5/27/25, 1:24 PM

For now, this is only available for Workers that are deployed to a “root” hostname like “example.com” and not specific paths like “example.com/path/to/something.” We plan to introduce more optimizations in the future that can preload specific paths.

Is this still the case, or did that optimization land for custom routes (i.e. non-custom domain routes)?

WWalshy haha, then your best bet is DO Alarms

dave•5/27/25, 1:25 PM

A Worker can have up to three Cron Triggers configured at once

https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/api/alarms/#background

I’m like 75% sure this is wrong, since I use waaaaay more than three Cron schedules in many of my Workers.

Cloudflare Docs

Alarms

Durable Objects alarms allow you to schedule the Durable Object to be woken up at a time in the future. When the alarm's scheduled time comes, the alarm() handler method will be called. Alarms are modified using the Storage API, and alarm operations follow the same rules as other storage operations.

Ddave > For now, this is only available for Workers that are deployed to a “root” host...

WalshyOP•5/27/25, 1:28 PM

still root, it's hard to figure out the right path early

WWalshy also we already pre-warm <https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-cold-starts-wi...

Trojan•5/27/25, 1:28 PM

how about for subrequests? those can’t be known ahead of time right?

Ddave > A Worker can have up to three Cron Triggers configured at once https://develo...

WalshyOP•5/27/25, 1:29 PM

hmm yeah, i think the limit is like 10/15

TTrojan how about for subrequests? those can’t be known ahead of time right?

WalshyOP•5/27/25, 1:29 PM

no, this doesn't help subrequests

WalshyOP•5/27/25, 1:29 PM

but also worth noting that workers are fast anyway :)

Trojan•5/27/25, 1:29 PM

maybe premature optimization, but fun to think about

Trojan•5/27/25, 1:31 PM

what’s the wind down period? maybe i can time prewarming by a kv value

WalshyOP•5/27/25, 1:31 PM

also worth remembering that workers don't shut down right away

WalshyOP•5/27/25, 1:31 PM

they stay around for a while (there is no set duration)

Trojan•5/27/25, 1:32 PM

ahhh darn

WWalshy also worth remembering that workers don't shut down right away

dave•5/27/25, 1:43 PM

Are you allowed to do a fetch with FinalizationRegistry? Was thinking you could make a Worker fetch itself as soon as it's being cleaned up.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/configuration/compatibility-flags/#enable-finalizationregistry-and-weakref

WalshyOP•5/27/25, 1:44 PM

FinalizationRegistry is only on gc cleanup, i don't know if you'll be able to get that reliably on worker shut down - i doubt it

WalshyOP•5/27/25, 1:45 PM

i'm not aware of it blocking fetch though so you can try it

Ddave Are you allowed to do a fetch with FinalizationRegistry? Was thinking you could ...

Trojan•5/27/25, 2:04 PM

that’s terrifying lol

Trojan•5/27/25, 2:07 PM

how about regional durable object replicas which ping their counterparts on the opposite side of the globe to stay warmed and consume wall time over cpu time

Trojan•5/27/25, 2:07 PM

well i guess you can’t concretely set their placement

GilDev•5/27/25, 3:49 PM

Hi!
Is there a way to rate-limit my Worker so that requests are not even counted by Cloudflare toward my daily request limit? It seems like the rate limit API only limits inside the Worker, but the initial call will still increment the request counter, right?

GGilDev Hi! Is there a way to rate-limit my Worker so that requests are not even counted...

Chaika•5/27/25, 4:05 PM

yes, rate limit rules and using Worker Custom Domains

Chaika•5/27/25, 4:06 PM

https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/rate-limiting-rules/

Cloudflare Docs

Rate limiting rules

Rate limiting rules allow you to define rate limits for requests matching an expression, and the action to perform when those rate limits are reached.

izak•5/27/25, 4:13 PM

Anyone else having issues with worker builds atm?

Iizak Anyone else having issues with worker builds atm?

MadDog•5/27/25, 4:19 PM

yes. Can't deploy a worker I have.

WalshyOP•5/27/25, 4:27 PM

Workers builds is having issues - status page coming up

WalshyOP•5/27/25, 4:29 PM

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/y1h2xdfxbkb9

Workers Builds Issues

izak•5/27/25, 4:36 PM

Cool it's deploying again, thanks for the quick fix

CChaika yes, rate limit rules and using Worker Custom Domains

GilDev•5/27/25, 6:45 PM

Thanks!

MadDog•5/27/25, 8:06 PM

Are workers slower than pages? A Hugo project which takes less than 90 seconds on pages is now taking over 200 seconds on workers.

MMadDog Are workers slower than pages? A Hugo project which takes less than 90 seconds o...

Chaika•5/27/25, 8:10 PM

Build Environment wise? Yes, it's been my experience the Workers Builds are slower
Production wise? It's all the same tech, Pages Functions are Workers, and both Pages Assets and Workers Static Assets are based off the same stuff, both use KV for storage and such, Workers Custom Domains are faster then Pages Custom Domains by a solid ~20ms tho

Trojan•5/27/25, 8:29 PM

does cloudflare snippets block waituntil?

Trojan•5/27/25, 8:37 PM

nvm

jordanthornquest•5/27/25, 9:53 PM

When I run

opennextjs-cloudflare build

opennextjs-cloudflare build

and

opennextjs-cloudflare deploy

opennextjs-cloudflare deploy

, do these commands read the values of

.dev.vars

.dev.vars

? If so, when deploying from a local machine, what's a good practice to avoid this?

Éric•5/27/25, 11:04 PM

Hey everyone!

I'm new to Cloudflare Workers and exploring caching strategies.

Current Setup: SSG blog site (like Pages). Goal: Rebuild with a framework (Hono/RedwoodJS) using a headless CMS (GraphQL) and achieve static HTML-like speed.

What are your best tips for caching with Workers in this scenario? Specifically, how can I make dynamic content from a headless CMS feel as fast as a fully static site?

Thanks in advance!

Fernando Dilland•5/28/25, 1:55 AM

I made an open source project with Rust which is an api deployed in CF Workers, where it stores hashed passwords with Argon2id in Cloudflare KV, with an api for registration, login, change user and delete user, generates JWT back to authenticate, perfect for https://github.com/fernandodilland/cloudflare-workers-turnstile-kv-rust-auth-argon2id-api websites.

GitHub

GitHub - fernandodilland/cloudflare-workers-turnstile-kv-rust-auth-...

A Cloudflare Workers project leveraging to power a secure authentication API. It stores user credentials in Cloudflare KV using Argon2id for robust hashing and integrates Cloudflare Turnstile for b...

FFernando Dilland I made an open source project with Rust which is an api deployed in CF Workers, ...

Fernando Dilland•5/28/25, 1:56 AM

Suggestions and issues for improvement are welcome!

Yomisana•5/28/25, 7:36 AM

Hi I just notice cf docs of page website have one said migrate to Workers which mean in future works completely finish build will disable pages?
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/static-assets/migrate-from-pages/

Cloudflare Docs

Migrate from Pages to Workers

A guide for migrating from Cloudflare Pages to Cloudflare Workers. Includes a compatibility matrix for comparing the features of Cloudflare Workers and Pages.

YYomisana Hi I just notice cf docs of page website have one said migrate to Workers which ...

Paul Mihai•5/28/25, 9:47 AM

I like Application Functions a lot more than Workers for (semi) static pages. Setup is simple and straight forward, chose git repo -> deploy / done. There is more to set for workers and without wrangler you will have troubles setting up everything. I would suggest unifying the two behind the scenes but keeping pages like worker templates, keeping it stupid simple for folks wanting to do something super straight forward. - Do not go the AWS route by making everything super abstracted and granular and necessarily super complex, PLEASE!!!

LLeesy Hi, I have two workers setup, first is my website which is running with smart pl...

Paul Mihai•5/28/25, 9:49 AM

To my knowledge you need to pass any data you want to get from the front worker to the api worker yourself. I used this mechanism to create security insulation for workers that needed to share session details

Paul Mihai•5/28/25, 12:23 PM

When workers are called they respond from the closest node, in your case 2 workers calling one another would most likely be on the same exact node if not then at the very least same exact location! So basically if you have the location of the main worker you have the one of the subworker too.

Aamir assari i want to make worker that get my emails and send them to Telegram bot. all code...

Paul Mihai•5/28/25, 12:27 PM

I don't think there is such a mechanic, you will need to provide the modules yourself

Paul Mihai•5/28/25, 12:39 PM

Well I'd download the public library and then load it like any ol module... import { PostalMime } from 'path_to_my_lib/posta-mime.min.js'; Or something along those lines

well, cron triggers are a bit different than normal invocations. don't really want to run a worker e

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