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Cloudflare Workers Cache
Lets Cloudflare Workers return cached responses without running the worker again, with cache tags for invalidation. Critics warn it may raise bills because of how requests are counted.
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Lets Cloudflare Workers return cached responses without running the worker again, with cache tags for invalidation. Critics warn it may raise bills because of how requests are counted.
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Why people love it
Fills a missing Workers feature · 2
exactly what Workers lacked, I was quite annoyed that a worker would spin up when 99% of my requests then return a cache
Jul 2026 · commentfinally, this was needed.
Jul 2026 · commentCache tags and stale-while-revalidate support · 2
the cache tags are a slick way to do invalidation
Jul 2026 · commentFinally proper stale-while-revalidate support!
Jul 2026 · comment
What people warn about
Request counting may raise bills · 3
That's a very weird limitation from a product standpoint. You might end up spending more money by enabling caching.
Jul 2026 · commentYeah that sounds like a bug that just happens to generate them more money.
Jul 2026 · commentIt sounds like they moved the component that counts requests earlier in the pipeline
Jul 2026 · comment
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exactly what Workers lacked, I was quite annoyed that a worker would spin up when 99% of my requests then return a cache
Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Workers Cache”
That's a very weird limitation from a product standpoint. You might end up spending more money by enabling caching.
Mixed · Jul 2026 · in “Workers Cache”
Yeah that sounds like a bug that just happens to generate them more money.
Mixed · Jul 2026 · in “Workers Cache”
the cache tags are a slick way to do invalidation
Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Workers Cache”
Finally proper stale-while-revalidate support!
Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Workers Cache”
finally, this was needed.
Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Workers Cache”
It sounds like they moved the component that counts requests earlier in the pipeline
Criticizes · Jul 2026 · in “Workers Cache”
Amazing! This is why I shoehorn all my server side usecases on to the Workers Platform.
Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Workers Cache”
Do we need a global gateway to help us not screw up the basics?
Mixed · Jul 2026 · in “Workers Cache”
Already using this to speed up a tool.
Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Workers Cache”
The get/put API was designed for a local browser cache, not a distributed cache like Cloudflare's.
Criticizes · Jul 2026 · in “Workers Cache”
Unfortunately it turned out to be a poor fit.
Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)”
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