Tom Morris

Retail person. Former radio person

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@yagiznizipli @eastdakota @Cloudflare Workers Routes powered by Rules Engine, not just path pattern matching

[Nigel Bennett @nigelmbennett]

Home Bargains breaks ground on new Doncaster distribution centre https://t.co/Ib43WFiMI8

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@depthsofwiki https://t.co/0y2bb9xUfH
And a list of who uses it

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@JordanFinners @Cloudflare All our own code. All rendered by workers

[Tom Morris @drak2]

Really happy with how our 100% @cloudflare Workers rendered ecom site is performing since launch a few weeks ago (https://t.co/Q9vXCbQjL4). There's no headless system in the backend. Just workers (and a tiny bit of DynamoDB). A bit about how we did it... (1/4)

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@hichaelmart @LambrosPetrou @Cloudflare Interesting, but don't think of great use for us. >98% of our traffic hits LHR or MAN colo - Our DDB is in AWS eu-west-2 region. Less than 4% of our Workers requests pull data from AWS/DDB. Will look into it tho

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@mike__builds @Cloudflare Sadly not. Product page ‘other product’ recommendations etc are from KV, everything you see on a category page inc filtering and sort is just Workers & KV, but search is too complex. Maybe one day with something like D1?

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@30thnight @Cloudflare We’ve built a stand alone content system for product and site data. When content is updated, events are sent from that system and end up in KV, time for updates to be reflected globally is 1-30 seconds (KV global replication time). Stripe just used for tokenised cards & payments

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@mike__builds @Cloudflare It’s @algolia all in the browser. The way their search works would never go via a Worker. Obviously their cost dwarfs everything else

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@bernsno @Cloudflare Lower TCO, it seemed like a fun thing to do, it scales better especially for volatile traffic patterns, our destiny is now in our own hands rather than being stuck with design patterns decided by someone else. Wasn’t a walk in the park, but the right think for us

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@Yagami_22_JSR @Cloudflare 1/50th if what it used to with EC2 & RDS

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@LambrosPetrou @Cloudflare Might add in DAX, but don’t want something that doesn’t auto scale…

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@LambrosPetrou @Cloudflare 100% of our customers are in the UK, so no point in global tables for us. Which is disappointing, as don’t get to flex the global nature of Workers. Dynamo is obv the slowest part of the stack, but such a tiny part of the whole system that it’s no big issue for us

[Tom Morris @drak2]

I like to think of it as infinitely scalable with no moving parts... So, nothing to go wrong? (4/4)

[Tom Morris @drak2]

Currently built using the Flareact framework, which we've been maintaining, but will move to NextJS on Cloudflare Pages when that's stable enough. It's nice to run a website with 0 servers and 0 relational DBs (3/4)

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@BryanRoberts72 I stand by this.

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@BryanRoberts72 Toads in holes

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@BryanRoberts72 Wrong ticket in front of it tho. Just don’t expect it to cost £22.50

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@dresserman https://t.co/l51J8G4z3v

[Tom Morris @drak2]

@VikkiRossWrites https://t.co/WNKAWzvfCs