Content Management System (CMS) Evolution
Payload on Workers: a full-fledged CMS, running entirely on Cloudflare’s stack

Payload on Workers: a full-fledged CMS, running entirely on Cloudflare’s stack

9/30/2025 · Jason Kincaid, Ricardo Tavares

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This post details the technical implementation of deploying Payload CMS on Cloudflare Workers. It covers creating a custom D1 adapter for Payload's SQLite support, building a custom R2 storage adapter, and integrating with Hyperdrive for database connection pooling and query caching. It also discusses performance optimizations using D1's global read replication with the 'first-primary' session type.

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