Workers concepts
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Workers concepts
Cloudflare Workers allow you to build web functions and applications without configuring or maintaining infrastructure. Workers are deployed globally to over 300+ data centers around the world on Cloudflare’s global network.
Before you begin building with Workers, review the following reference material to understand how Workers works.
Serverless computing
To understand the fundamentals of Workers technology, refer to these Cloudflare Learning Center articles on serverless computing, containers and serverless JavaScript.
Workers
Explore Cloudflare Workers developer documentation by starting with How Workers works, and learn the difference between the Workers runtime versus traditional browsers and Node.js. If you are a Node.js user, review Node.js compatibility in the Workers documentation.
The cache
Learn how Workers interacts with the Cloudflare cache by reading How the cache works.
Developer Platform
Cloudflare Workers is part of the Cloudflare Developer Platform. You will explore this topic in module 5.
Related resources
The Cloudflare blog offers updates and further insights to developers on the Cloudflare developer platform, which includes Workers. Explore some curated blog posts below on Workers speed, and scalability.
- Learn about the Workers security model, supported languages and more in the Reference section of the Workers documentation.
- Cloudflare Workers versus Lambda versus Lambda@Edge
- Cloudflare blog posts related to Workers