Cloudflare Workers allows you to quickly deploy Javascript code to our 150+ data centers around the world and execute very close to your end-user. The edit/compile/debug story is already pretty amazing using the Workers IDE with integrated Chrome Dev Tools. However, for those hankering for some Typescript and an IDE with static analysis, autocomplete and that jazz, follow along to see one way to set up a Typescript project with Webstorm and npm run upload your code straight to the edge.
My environment looks like this:
You'll also need a Cloudflare domain and to activate Workers on it.
I'll be using cryptoserviceworker.com
I'll also use Yeoman to build our initial scaffolding. Install it with npm install yo -g
Let's start with a minimal node app with a "hello world" class and a test.
mkdir cryptoserviceworker && cd cryptoserviceworker
npm install generator-node-typescript -g
yo node-typescript
That generator creates the following directory structure:
drwxr-xr-x 16 steve staff 512 Jun 18 20:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 steve staff 320 Jun 18 20:35 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve staff 197 Jun 18 20:40 .editorconfig
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If you’ve watched any of our Google or Blockchain courses, you may be familiar with Joseph Holbrook. Continue reading to learn more about this talented course author:
Joe Holbrook has been in the IT field since 1993 when he was exposed to several HPUX systems on board a US Navy flagship. He has migrated from UNIX world to Storage Area Networking(SAN) and then onto Enterprise Virtualization and Cloud Architecture. In the past, Joe has worked for numerous companies like HDS, 3PAR Data, Brocade, Dimension Data, EMC, Northrup Grumman, ViON, Ibasis.net, Chematch.com, SAIC and Siemens Nixdorf. Currently he’s a Subject Matter Expert specializing in Cloud/IT Security focused on Data Storage infrastructure services and Data migrations to the Cloud.
Joe holds Industry leading certifications from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Brocade, Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, VMWare, CompTIA, HP 3PAR ASE, Cloud Credential Council and other orgs. He is now working on the Google Cloud Platform for several organizations.
Joe is married with children and lives in Jacksonville, Florida. In his free time, he enjoys traveling to South America, spending time with my 5 year old daughter and learning about cryptocurrencies. He is also an avid hockey fan and enjoys Continue reading
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Businesses with high growth, complex tasks and repetition, tend to rely on or require automation to fulfill business challenges. Introducing automation is not without challenges and sometimes they can be quite significant. Identifying success is one of the early crucial activities that creates a business alignment. The identification exercise highlights justification for one more decisions and the removal of friction. Some of the decisions are not easy to make and friction is not easy to experience without applying pressure to various parts of an organization.
What follows is a number of scenarios with some reasoning around the kind of challenges that you’re already facing or likely to face.
If the absolute reasons are known, accepted and aligned against, you have just laid one of the foundational layers for success.
Great news and bad news. You’re in a business under stress from high growth! Lots of great challenges to solve and high pressure from not having them currently solved.
With high growth businesses, engineers or administrators are not under threat of being “automated out of their job”. If you identify as one of these people, you have an opportunity to learn new skills, be rewarded for finishing projects Continue reading
One of my articles was published in the most recent Internet Protocol Journal:
If you don’t subscribe to or read IPJ, you should—it’s a great source of information written by industry leaders and thinkers.