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Who is Cloudflare Workers best for?
Quick fit guide: Who is Cloudflare Workers best for, who should avoid it, and what typically forces a switch.
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Best use cases for Cloudflare Workers
- Latency-sensitive web request paths and edge middleware
- Global products where tail latency affects UX and conversion
- Teams comfortable with edge constraints and stateless-first patterns
- Security and routing logic close to the user
Who should avoid Cloudflare Workers?
- You need broad cloud-native triggers and deep integration breadth as the default
- Your functions need long-running execution or heavy compute per request
- You want maximum portability without platform-specific edge patterns
Upgrade triggers for Cloudflare Workers
- You need more complex state/queue orchestration and stronger operational ownership
- Runtime limits block required libraries or workloads
- You need tighter cost/egress modeling as traffic scales
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