Can a real app run only on Cloudflare?

Yes. We shipped the Krishok seasonal marketplace entirely on Workers, D1, R2, KV, Queues, and Durable Objects. The trick is designing for the platform's primitives rather than porting a traditional server architecture.

What about the limits?

Workers have CPU-time and request limits, and D1 is not a drop-in for a giant Postgres. We assess those constraints against your workload up front, so the architecture fits rather than fights the platform.

★ Cloudflare WorkersTechnologies & Infrastructure8-week engagement

CLOUDFLARE · EDGE PLATFORM

The whole backend, at the edge.

Workers, D1, R2, KV, Queues, and Durable Objects let you run a real application on one platform, close to users, with almost no servers to babysit. We have shipped production systems entirely on it.

CloudflareEdge serverlessEdge SQLObject storage

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Cycle

8 weeks · fixed price

Stack

Cloudflare-only

Output

Production code + eval suite

Handoff

Full source ownership

[THE SHORT VERSION]

An entire architecture, not just a CDN.

Cloudflare has quietly become a complete application platform: compute (Workers), SQL (D1), object storage (R2), key-value (KV), queues, and stateful coordination (Durable Objects). For the right product, this collapses a whole cloud bill and ops burden into one platform running close to your users. We built the Krishok marketplace this way.

When it fits

Global, latency-sensitive apps that benefit from edge compute
Teams that want minimal servers and a simple operational surface
Spiky or seasonal traffic where serverless scaling helps

When it does not

Workloads needing long-running processes or heavy CPU per request
Apps locked to a specific managed service elsewhere

[HOW WE BUILD IT]

How we build with Cloudflare Workers.

Map the app to the platform

We decide which primitive owns what: Workers for compute, D1 for relational data, R2 for files, KV for config, Durable Objects for coordination.

Edge-first data design

Data modeled for edge reads and the consistency the product actually needs. We do not pretend the edge is a single Postgres.

Local-to-prod parity

Wrangler-based local dev that mirrors production, with CI that deploys the same artifact you tested.

Observability and limits

Real monitoring plus an honest read of platform limits, so you know the edges before you hit them.

[WHAT YOU GET]

What the engagement leaves behind.

1 platform

Compute, data, storage, queues

Global

Close to every user

Minimal

Servers to operate

7 days

Krishok: pivot to launch

[COMMON QUESTIONS]

Questions we get asked.

Can a real app run only on Cloudflare?: Yes. We shipped the Krishok seasonal marketplace entirely on Workers, D1, R2, KV, Queues, and Durable Objects. The trick is designing for the platform's primitives rather than porting a traditional server architecture.
What about the limits?: Workers have CPU-time and request limits, and D1 is not a drop-in for a giant Postgres. We assess those constraints against your workload up front, so the architecture fits rather than fights the platform.

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