we'll cut to the chase cloudflare workers is a serverless computing platform running on a 200 plus city global edge network unlike some platforms we could name it needs little configuration and no region selection which lets developers deploy new applications anywhere on earth in less time than it took to say this sentence how is this even possible truth is most serverless platforms are built on public cloud infrastructure running out of centralized data centers this causes serious latency since code is running far away from most end users workers is different it automatically deploys your code to all 200 plus locations in cloudflare's edge network which sits within milliseconds of 99 of internet users that means applications experience exceptional performance and the only required region is planet earth so you could deploy an entirely new application worldwide within the span of this sentence too now this scale is just one reason workers is a ridiculously fast development platform it also runs on lightweight v8 isolates rather than containers which don't need to pull in language runtime that means no more sluggish cold starts or cpu throttling giving users more per second of compute time workers also lets developers skip many time-wasting deployment steps there are no orchestration templates application sizing or other elements to configure before you begin and workers comes with essential tools like a key value store and front-end developer services that are accessible from a single dashboard plus workers uses the same network that runs cloudflare's content delivery network load balancing ddos mitigation web application firewall and much more with performance and security already taken care of there's a straight line from development to production deployment if you're looking to deploy serverless code instantly across the globe with exceptional performance and scale look no further get started with cloudflare workers today