GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech Serverless Apps on Cloudflare • Ashley Peacock & Ricky Robinett
Sep 23, 2025
Ashley Peacock, a Staff Software Engineer at Simply Business and author, joins Ricky Robinett to discuss the evolution of Cloudflare from a security service to a robust developer platform. They explore unique features like global deployment, resource bindings, and a stellar local development experience. Ashley highlights Cloudflare’s innovative products, including serverless functions and various storage solutions. The duo also delves into the power of AI tools in development, showcasing an email-based AI support agent as a practical example.
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Cloudflare Is A Developer Platform
- Cloudflare evolved from a security/CDN company into a full developer platform with global deployment, databases, caches, and AI tools.
- Ashley wrote Serverless Apps on Cloudflare to surface underused developer capabilities and accelerate adoption.
Early Hands-On Beginnings
- Ashley's first Cloudflare experience involved editing JavaScript in the browser to modify HTTP headers, which felt terrifying at the time.
- She later built a Discord bot when only Workers and KV existed, showing how the platform matured into full apps.
Book Teaches By Building Projects
- The book teaches Cloudflare products via mini projects covering Workers, D1, KV, R2, queues, and AI like Workers AI.
- It emphasizes differences from other clouds and practical deployment using GitHub Actions.
