Serverless Apps on Cloudflare • Ashley Peacock & Ricky Robinett

GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech

This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club.
http://gotopia.tech/bookclub

Read the full transcription of the interview here

Ashley Peacock - Staff Software Engineer at Simply Business & Author of "Serverless Apps on Cloudflare" & "Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques"
Ricky Robinett - VP Developer Relations & Community at Cloudflare
RESOURCES
Ashley
https://twitter.com/_ashleypeacock
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-peacock-133749120
https://medium.com/@ashley-peacock
https://github.com/apeacock1991

Ricky
https://twitter.com/rickyrobinett
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickyrobinett
https://about.me/rickyrobinett
https://github.com/rickyrobinett

Links
https://www.cursor.com

DESCRIPTION
Ricky Robinett interviews Ashley Peacock, author of "Serverless Apps on Cloudflare", about the developer platform side of Cloudflare. Ashley explains how Cloudflare has evolved from primarily a security company to a full-fledged developer platform with global deployment capabilities, databases, caching solutions, and AI tools.
They discuss the unique aspects of Cloudflare's architecture, including global deployment by default, bindings that simplify resource connections without requiring secrets management, and excellent local development experience.
Ashley highlights several Cloudflare products including Workers (serverless functions), D1 (SQLite database), KV (key-value store), R2 (object storage), Durable Objects, and AI offerings like Workers AI and AI Gateway. The conversation covers developer experience, using AI assistants for coding, and the benefits of Cloudflare's approach to simplifying cloud development.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ashley Peacock • Serverless Apps on Cloudflare
Ashley Peacock • Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques
Jeroen Mulder • Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects

Crossing Borders
Crossing Borders is a podcast by Neema, a cross border payments platform that...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Bluesky
Twitter
Instagram
LinkedIn
Facebook
CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS
Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join

Looking for a unique learning experience?
Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.tech
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. From CDN to platform: Cloudflare’s serverless story (00:02:28)

3. Diving into Cloudflare technologies (00:06:07)

4. [Ad] Crossing Borders (00:08:29)

5. (Cont.) Diving into Cloudflare technologies (00:09:07)

6. DevEx & AI integration (00:12:47)

7. Local development (00:21:44)

8. Data & storage (00:24:23)

9. Vectorize, Workers AI & AI Gateway (00:29:08)

10. Closing thoughts (00:36:07)

11. Outro (00:37:45)