,Cloudflare has announced the introduction of Supercloud, a new capability that takes the burden of deciding where to run code off the developer.
Supercloud, is a new feature on Cloudflare Workers and will automatically choose the optimal location to run compute to improve performance, efficiency, and cost.
Cloudflare Workers provides a serverless external link execution environment that allows for the creation of entirely new applications or augmentation of existing ones without configuring or maintaining infrastructure.
Supercloud provides a modern approach and a new vision for how developers should be thinking about compute – letting Cloudflare decide where to run code on behalf of the developer, leaving them to focus on innovation and building.
Serverless compute typically runs closest to the user’s eyeball, but that can be performance prohibitive when the compute needs to connect to data, due to multiple round trips, depending on where data resides, APIs required, or where the user is located.
Cloudflare is also announcing a milestone of over 1 million developers building Cloudflare Workers. With this growth and new Supercloud, Cloudflare is setting the vision for how developers should build applications moving forward.
The compute platform scales beyond a machine, data center, or nation, provided the correct software. It scales to the size of the Internet with the right software
Global software automatically allocates resources for optimal end user satisfaction and high efficiency. Connections, data, and processing are moved around for optimal performance.
Cloudflare says the Supercloud makes scaling easy because no one has to think about how many Virtual machines (VMs) to provision, no one has to keep hot standby VMs in case there’s a flood of visitors.
“It’s not just about scaling. In the Supercloud both code and data are mobile and move around the network.”
“A Supercloud has interesting effects on the cost of running a program., It makes it more economical because you only run what you need. There’s never any need for committed VMs waiting for work, or idle machines you’re paying for just in case.”
“Code either runs or it doesn’t. It scales up and down as needed. You only pay for precisely what you need.” says Cloudflare.
The Supercloud has been in construction for 12 years, and it runs on Cloudflares global network, which was designed for scalability and performance.
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