Cloudflare's new container platform & more - Infranews #1
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Cloudflare’s new Container platform
https://blog.cloudflare.com/container-platform-preview/
Cloudflare announced a new container platform that is set to become publicly available in 2025. It comes with a couple of exiting features:
global scheduling - you don’t have to specify a region to run your workload in, instead Cloudflare will dynamically move your workloads to the best location.
GPU support
Faster docker pulls for large images - a custom build tool reportedly cut they’re image pull time in half.
Check out their extremly well-written article for more details on features and challenges they had to overcome.
Cloudflare joins OpenNext to help solve the nextjs vendor lock-in problem
https://blog.cloudflare.com/builder-day-2024-announcements/#cloudflare-joins-opennext
Cloudflare coming in with yet another big announcement this week, they are joining OpenNext to help Next.js developers escape the Vercel vendor lock-in. You can now run Next.js applications on Cloudflare.
Next.js, unlike Remix, Astro, or the other modern frontends, doesn't have a way to self-host across different platforms. You can run it as a Node.js application. But this doesn't work the same way as it does on Vercel.
Crafting executables from raw bytes
This one is less of an infrastructure topic but I have been really enjoying the reintroduction-to-programming series by Kay Lack and the newest episode just got released this week
I highly recommend to watch the whole series to gain a better fundamental understanding of how computers work. If you enjoy it as much as I do consider supporting by becoming a member at https://www.0de5.net/membership