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Building on the Cloudflare Platform

EngineeringCloud

4/1/2026

In this post, we explore the Cloudflare platform and how we use it to build fast, reliable applications at the edge.

Key Services

  • Workers - Serverless compute at the edge
  • D1 - SQLite database at the edge
  • KV - Low-latency key-value storage
  • R2 - S3-compatible object storage
  • Durable Objects - Stateful real-time coordination
  • Queues - Reliable async message processing