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Feature story
 
GitHub Actions + Wrangler CLI = Easy Deploys for Cloudflare Workers
 
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GitHub Actions make deployments incredibly easy for both large and small projects. Deploy both sites and serverless functions in response to webhooks, on a set time interval, or ad-hoc. @signalnerve breaks down some of the best uses in this Twitter thread.
 
 
 
What's new?
 
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Serverless Deployment Best Practices (Serverless)
Structured practices for deploying your applications will minimize bugs, maintain application security, and allow you to develop more rapidly. This post will review a variety of serverless deployment best practices as the complexity and scope of your serverless applications grow.
 
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faastRuby: The next chapter (faastRuby)
Sadly, faastRuby has passed away. Here is a post explaining what happened - and how you can move on - both emotionally and with your code.
 
Workers Sites: Extending the Workers platform with our own serverless building blocks (Cloudflare blog)
You can now deploy entire websites directly to Cloudflare Workers and Workers KV. If you can statically generate the assets for your site - think create-react-app, Jekyll, or even the WP2Static plugin - then you can deploy it to our entire global network, which spans 194 cities in more than 90 countries.
 
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Choosing between serverless and containers (SD Times)
Serverless works very well in small, discrete tasks, or large applications that are made up of small, discrete parts. Containers come in when there are more complex requirements, you need access to a lot of data, or when developers are writing in a language that serverless platforms don’t support yet.
 
GitCF – A RawGit-Like Service Running on Cloudflare Workers (GitHub)
GitCF is a service that is similar to RawGit, but running on Cloudflare Workers. The GitHub repo is linked above, and you can paste the script to Workers editor to get your own instance. Here’s a link to the demo.
 
 
 
Get your hands dirty
 
Testing Cloudflare Workers (findwork.dev)
Join Dani as he walks through how to set up unit testing for Cloudflare Workers.
 
Using Cloudflare Worker's HTML Rewriter to extend Ghost Pro (jross.me)
Want to improve your Ghost Pro blog with better analytics, more control, and increased functionality? Check out James Ross’ post on adding Cloudflare Worker’s HTML Rewriter to your Ghost Pro instance.
 
Building a Serverless Doc Writing app using Cloudflare Workers and KV Store (Hashnode)
A serverless web app that lets users write and publish articles anonymously. Here's a link to project and a link to the Hacker News post.
 
Workdown: Write Markdown and Have a Static Site on Cloudflare Workers (GitHub)
A system to write Markdown and have it published and hosted via Cloudflare Workers.
 
Console.watch: a remote console polyfill for Cloudflare Workers (console.watch)
Console.watch is a remote console polyfill for Cloudflare Workers by @jedschmidt. It redirects all console.* calls to this web page in real-time. To use it in your project, first copy the polyfill code into the top of your worker code, call a console method (like .log or .error), and run the worker.
 
 
 
From the community
 
Control Cloudflare origin server using Workers (Stack Overflow)
 
Build a RESTful API with the Serverless Framework (dev.to)
 
 
 
 
Upcoming developer events
 
Connect New York: Build Serverless Applications on Cloudflare
Event Type: Conference
Location: New York, US
Date: November 6, 2019
 
Serverless: a good experience for developers?
Event Type: Meetup
Location: Austin, US
Date: November 6, 2019
 
Developer Week Austin
Event Type: Conference
Location: Austin, US
Date: November 6-7, 2019
Be sure to check out the WebAssembly: The Future of JS and a Multi-Language Web and
A Tale of Diversifying Your Product Through Internationalization talks.
 
NodeConf EU
Event Type: Conference
Location: Kilkenny, Ireland
Date: November 10-13, 2019
 
dotJS
Event Type: Conference
Location: Paris, France
Date: December 5-6, 2019
Robots rock! Be sure to check out the JS musical performance from Kassian Wren.
 
 
 
A look inside Cloudflare
 
Who DDoS'd Austin? (Cloudflare blog)

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