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anilgulechatoday at 2:49 PM3 repliesview on HN

If eastdakota/jgc are here.

- simply expose containers to the world directly - without having to go via workers.

- You have other amazing parts of the stack anyway (D1, durable objects, a great object store). These aren't considered "lockin".

- workers is "lockin" - not similar enough to lambda/cloud functions and so becomes CF specific.

Not having a simple container based compute piece has made me hesitate in taking up CF. (Fly or firebase won out)


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jgrahamctoday at 4:03 PM

I am here but I retired from being CTO of Cloudflare in March 2025 [1] and the current CTO is Dane Knecht (dknecht here). What advantage does decoupling Cloudflare Containers from Cloudflare Workers have?

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/three-chapters-at-cloudflare-pro...

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yodontoday at 3:06 PM

>Not having a simple container based compute piece made me hesitate in taking up CF

Agreed. I wish CF had something like Azure's new fast-starting Express containers.

ndjdjxixjenejtoday at 2:59 PM

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