Cloudflare named a leader in Forrester Edge Development Platforms Wave, Q4 2023

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This post highlights Cloudflare's recognition as a leader in edge development platforms by Forrester. It details the expansion of Cloudflare Workers and related developer platform products (Pages, R2, KV, Queues, Durable Objects, D1, Stream, Images) for building full-stack distributed applications. Key technical advancements include Smart Placement for optimizing Worker execution location, Hyperdrive for pooling database connections, and Cron Triggers for compute-intensive background tasks. The post emphasizes the ease of use for developers by leveraging web standard APIs, TypeScript support, and integration with popular open-source frameworks. It also details the expansion into AI with Workers AI, offering GPU access for model inference globally and supporting deployment from Hugging Face. The integration of WebGPU and the ongoing development of a secrets store, improved observability, and release management tools are also mentioned.