| Akamai Edge Workers | Features | Cloudflare Workers |
|---|---|---|
| Functions / Serverless | ||
| JavaScript, possibly Python (1 example with Python code in their repo) | Functions supported languages | javascript, rust, C/++ |
| Worker.js Environment | ||
| No | Docker support | |
| Docker private registry | ||
| Kubernetes support | ||
| Managed Kubernetes | ||
| Over 4100 POPs worldwide | Availability regions | 200 pops |
| Default Memory (MB) | 128 | |
| Maximum Memory (MB) | 128 | |
| Execution Time (ms) | 10 | |
| Maximum Execution Time (ms) | 50 | |
| Request Payload (MB) | ||
| Response Payload (MB) | ||
| Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown | ||
Continuing their ongoing efforts to improve the internets global state, Cloudflare started to allow compute at their edge, eventually and essentially becoming a serverless/edge compute provider.
Cloudflare has an impressive global network presence and an even more impressive rate of pushing (open source or free) products to the market.
Unique about Workers is Key Value storage. Cloudflare’s low latency KV data store, optimized for high reads, low writes.
With a rich amount of example code to start out in your code of preference right away!
