Helping with COVID-19 Projects: Cloudflare Workers now free through Project Galileo
4/18/2020 · Rita Kozlov
What this post added
This post announces free access to Cloudflare Workers through Project Galileo for COVID-19 related projects. It highlights several example projects (API-COVID19-In, MakeFaceMasks, Mask A Hero NY, CovidTracking API) that leverage Workers for their scalability, ease of use, and lack of infrastructure maintenance. Specific technical benefits mentioned include rapid deployment, cost-effectiveness compared to origin servers, automated development/translation flows, handling traffic spikes without downtime, and easy deployment of static sites with Workers Sites. The CovidTracking API example details using Workers as a serverless proxy, caching, and utilizing Cloudflare Key Value storage for improved performance and user experience.