Helping with COVID-19 Projects: Cloudflare Workers now free through Project Galileo

This post details the offering of free Cloudflare Workers access through Project Galileo for COVID-19 related projects. It showcases four example projects (API-COVID19-In, MakeFaceMasks, Mask A Hero NY, CovidTracking API) that leverage Workers for rapid deployment, scalability, and handling high traffic. Specific technical benefits highlighted include ease of setup, cost-effectiveness compared to maintaining origins, automatic scaling, cache breaking, and the ability to handle significant traffic spikes without downtime. The CovidTracking API example specifically mentions using Workers as a serverless proxy, caching fetched data, and utilizing Cloudflare KV storage for parsed and serialized results with TTL limits.