Cloudflare Cache Rules are zone-level cache policy: request expressions decide what is eligible for cache, how Edge TTL and Browser TTL behave, what dimensions enter the cache key, and how stale content, ETags, and purge interact. Use them for CDN cache policy; use the Worker Cache API for programmatic caching.
Cloudflare Queues is the message queue beside Workers: producers enqueue slow work, consumers process it with batching, ack/retry, delays, and DLQs. It is good for single-step background jobs; durable multi-step state belongs in Workflows.
The new Deno Deploy runs application revisions on Deno 2; understand it through timelines, contexts, databases, and telemetry rather than Deploy Classic assumptions.
Fly.io places fast-starting Machines in chosen regions and connects them through Fly Proxy and private 6PN; cross-region state consistency remains your hard problem.
Hono RPC exports a route's `typeof AppType` so `hc` can infer inputs, response bodies, and status codes. The shared artifact is a TypeScript type, not an independent wire schema.
Netlify centers on atomic deploys and previews, then adds Functions, Edge Functions, Blobs, and Database; each runtime and state layer has distinct consistency and limits.
Drizzle ORM is a SQL-first TypeScript ORM — its query builder reads like SQL, so queries written by agents are auditable in diffs. Zero dependencies, ~7.4 KB gzipped, native support for edge databases like Cloudflare D1, Neon, and Turso. Still at version 0.45.2 with no 1.0, yet weekly downloads have reached 16.9 million — surpassing Prisma's 13.8 million.