With Cloudflare for Platforms, organizations
can easily customize and build on top of any application to cater
to their customers’ needs
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and
reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today
announced Cloudflare for Platforms, a new suite of tools that
allows organizations to transform any application into a
programmable platform for developers to build on. Cloudflare for
Platforms allows organizations to easily transform any fixed
application – ranging from ecommerce solutions to chat apps and
everything in between – so developers can build custom
functionality using the latest open API standards, without relying
on costly external servers to manage complex APIs.
As businesses scale, they need to cater to individual customer
needs that may vary from a Fortune 100 financial institution to a
hyper-growth technology company. Previously, businesses would use
their own engineering resources to build features for each
customer, which can be costly and hard to scale. Imagine a
workplace chat application provider is asked by a customer to build
an integration with an email tool. Instead of using valuable
engineering resources, the chat application provider can give its
customers the ability to build directly within the application.
With Cloudflare for Platforms, any organization will be able to
empower users to program an application the way they want and need
it to perform without costly servers, massive developer resources,
or external consultants.
“Five years ago Cloudflare built our serverless computing
platform, Cloudflare Workers, to give all of our customers the
ability to program the way Cloudflare worked for themselves,” said
Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “Cloudflare
Workers is one of the fastest and most widely adopted edge
computing products that provides limitless possibilities for our
customers. Now we’re taking this formula and helping any
organization do the same, using the scale, speed, and flexibility
of Cloudflare’s global network.”
Cloudflare for Platforms is built on Cloudflare Workers, a
serverless solution that allows developers to deploy code instantly
across Cloudflare’s global network for exceptional performance,
reliability, and scale. Additionally, Cloudflare is partnering with
leading organizations to create new API standards for developers
that will form the foundation of how applications can be built in
the future to take advantage of the scale and flexibility of edge
computing. Now Cloudflare will enable any product to become a
platform, by allowing its developers to:
- Use Cloudflare’s fast, scalable, and secure environment:
With multiple developers building customized tools on a businesses'
platform, code needs to run quickly in a highly secure environment
and scale as needed.
- Quickly and easily view all of their code: Developers
need to have visibility into errors, and an overview of what's
going on in their code. Trace Cloudflare Workers make it easy for
any business to pass that information onto their customers’
developers.
- Use the API standards of the future for a common experience,
wherever they code: Any developer will be able to write and run
code conforming to Web Platform standards – and easily transfer it
– between Cloudflare Workers, Deno, and Node.js seamlessly and
without the need to rewrite an application.
- Get insights from powerful analytics: Using Ready
Analytics, platforms can expose easy to use dashboards to
developers.
- Simplify and secure custom domains: For many platforms,
especially for SaaS use cases, having the ability to run the
service on a custom domain is table stakes. SSL for SaaS, part of
Cloudflare for Platforms, provides an easy way to provision SSL
certificates for custom hostnames without having to manage complex
certificates deployment pipelines.
“Shopify is the Internet’s commerce infrastructure, with
millions of merchants using the platform,” said Zach Koch, product
director, custom storefronts, at Shopify. “Partnering with
Cloudflare, we’re able to give developers the tools they need to
build unique and performant storefronts. We are excited to work
with Cloudflare to alleviate some of the complexities of building
commerce experiences – like scalability and global availability –
so that developers can instead focus on what makes their brand
distinct.”
To register interest, sign up here. For more information, check
out the resource below:
- Blog: Workers for Platforms
- Landing Page: Cloudflare for Platforms
- Overview: Platform Week
About Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. (www.cloudflare.com / @cloudflare) is on a
mission to help 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. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web
traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets
smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant
improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other
attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top
Company Cultures 2018 list and ranked among the World’s Most
Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2019. Headquartered in San
Francisco, CA, Cloudflare has offices in Austin, TX, Champaign, IL,
New York, NY, San Jose, CA, Seattle, WA, Washington, D.C., Toronto,
Lisbon, London, Munich, Paris, Beijing, Singapore, Sydney, and
Tokyo.
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