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Published inJun 2023
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Safeer CM
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Safeer CM is a technology generalist with more than 16 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and platform engineering. A site reliability engineer by trade, Safeer has managed large-scale production infrastructures at internet giants like Yahoo and LinkedIn and is currently working at Flipkart. He has experience in cloud management and consulting for budding and established startups as a cloud architect. He is an ambassador of the Continuous Delivery Foundation and contributes to the CD and DevOps communities. As a technology speaker, blogger and meetup organizer, Safeer enjoys mentoring new technology talents, especially in the fields of SRE and DevOps.
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Cloudflare Workers – the workhorse at the edge

Cloudflare Workers provides Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) at the edge of its network. Workers was introduced in 2017 September as beta and opened up to everyone in 2018 March. Adding programming capabilities to a cache is nothing new. Multiple open source projects support adding programmability to a caching or edge server. The varnish cache (https://varnish-cache.org/) provides a configuration language called varnish configuration language (VCL). Similarly, Nginx supports adding LUA programs as modules (https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/modules/lua/), as do many other projects, including HAProxy, Kong API Gateway, and others. All these services aim to achieve one thing: intercept the HTTP requests and responses at the edge and modify them with custom logic for better performance and/or additional feature support.

Cloudflare and other CDN/edge service providers use different tools and services to keep adding features at the...

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Safeer CM

Safeer CM is a technology generalist with more than 16 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and platform engineering. A site reliability engineer by trade, Safeer has managed large-scale production infrastructures at internet giants like Yahoo and LinkedIn and is currently working at Flipkart. He has experience in cloud management and consulting for budding and established startups as a cloud architect. He is an ambassador of the Continuous Delivery Foundation and contributes to the CD and DevOps communities. As a technology speaker, blogger and meetup organizer, Safeer enjoys mentoring new technology talents, especially in the fields of SRE and DevOps.
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