Tweet by dok2001

June 24, 2025

Big day for @Cloudflare as we launch our newest compute primitive, Containers! A bit of history: In 2020, we acquired S2 Remote Browser tech and faced the challenge of migrating it from AWS to our edge. To run a Chromium-based browser securely, we split our team: half focused on the Remote Browser app, half built a robust, independent container platform to support it. We knew some workloads needed to be close to users but didn’t fit our Workers isolate model. This platform became a game-changer, empowering dozens of internal teams to build features like Workers CI/CD, Browser Rendering, Key Transparency, Workers AI, and more. But we kept asking: Is this the right primitive for our users? Workers remains the go-to for globally distributed, effortlessly scalable compute at a great price. Initially, many use cases we heard were for single-node webservers that didn’t need region earth. Then we got excited as users started asking for latency-sensitive, real-time applications and the ability to run agents close to the users they serve. Cloudflare Containers are here to deliver for those high-performance, user-proximal workloads. Excited to see what you build with it!

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dok2001
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June 24, 2025
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