How we built it: the technology behind Cloudflare Radar 2.0
Nov 17, 2022Celso Martinho, Nuno Pereira, Sofia Cardita, Gabriel Massadas
Summary
This post details the engineering behind Radar 2.0, highlighting its architecture built on Cloudflare Pages with Functions, Remix for server-side rendering, and a Python/FastAPI backend API. It explains the use of Cloudflare Workers for the frontend API, transforming backend GraphQL data into a public REST API. Performance improvements through Early Hints and Lighthouse score enhancements are also discussed.
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