Cloudflare Named a Leader in Edge Development
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SAN FRANCISCO – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company that helps build a better Internet, has been named a Leader in The Forrester New Wave ™: Edge Development Platforms by Forrester Research, Inc. , Report Q4 2021. The Cloudflare Workers Developer Platform was classified according to eight criteria, including developer experience, programming model, integrations and roadmap.
“With Cloudflare’s Workers platform, we hope to give the next billion dollar business the opportunity to build entirely on Cloudflare,” said Matthew Prince, Co-Founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “Whether you’re a single developer, a small business, or a large corporation, it’s really powerful to build apps that solve real-world problems and run globally in seconds, all with less code and faster.”
In Forrester New Wave ™: Edge Development Platforms, Forrester states, “Cloudflare offers an intuitive developer experience, fast, global delivery of updated code, and minimal cold start times.” The report continues, “The global reach and breadth of the Cloudflare Edge development platform makes it makes it a good solution for development teams who want to build high-performing websites, support personalized content and defend against malicious attacks. ”
Launched in 2017, the edge-based serverless platform Cloudflare Workers helps developers instantly deploy code around the world for exceptional performance, reliability, and scalability. Workers runs on a global scale by default as traffic is automatically routed across the Cloudflare network from 250+ cities in 100+ countries. Since its inception, Cloudflare has increased the speed of Cloudflare workers by 30 percent, eliminated cold starts and added solutions for compute, storage and front-end services that are transforming the possibilities of edge development. Today, more than one hundred thousand developers worldwide use Cloudflare Worker to:
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Instantly Share Code Worldwide: Developers can update their code and get it live worldwide in 15 seconds compared to the minutes it can take to update on other serverless platforms.
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Get security and reliability out of the box: Designed to withstand the latest security threats, Workers comes with Cloudflare DDoS protection and more as standard.
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Seamless integration with other tools: With integrations with a wide variety of storage providers, databases, public clouds, and APIs, developers can use pre-existing tools to create exactly what they want.
Forrester evaluated nine participating vendors based on 10 criteria, including developer experience, platform execution model, workload breadth, security, integrations, and more. To learn more, please check out the following resources:
About Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. (www.cloudflare.com / @cloudflare) is committed to helping build a better internet. Cloudflare’s suite of products protects and accelerates any internet application online without adding hardware, installing software or changing a line of code. With internet properties operated by Cloudflare, all web traffic is routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see a significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was included in Entrepreneur Magazine’s list of Top Company Cultures 2018 and was voted one of the most innovative companies in the world by Fast Company 2019. Cloudflare is headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices in Austin, TX, Champaign, IL, New York, NY, San Jose, CA, Seattle, WA, Washington, DC, Toronto, Lisbon, London, Munich, Paris, Beijing, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.
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