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API Design Patterns for Cloudflare Workers: Minimal, Secure, Fast I've built APIs on every platform—traditional servers, Lambda, containers. But Cloudflare Workers fundamentally changed how I think about API design. Not because they're faster (they are), but because every millisecond saved at the edge compounds across millions of requests, and your infrastructure bill actually reflects that. The problem: most API guidance assumes you're running a traditional backend. Cloudflare Workers demand...

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