Cloudflare Workers take code execution to the edge

Web security company Cloudflare announced the general availability of Cloudflare Workers, which enable developers to launch their code directly at the edge of the company’s global network.Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Workers beta in September. The company said since then, customers in the beta have used Cloudflare Workers to run billions of edge computing tasks. Multi-access edge computing is a way of extending cloud capabilities closer to the end user for applications that demand bandwidth and low latency. The technology has been championed as an effective way to manage the growing number of web-connected devices. The purpose of Cloudflare is to enable developers to deploy their code closer to the end-user in order to ensure applications run smoothly.