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CDNs allow serving files closest to the user cutting out 100s of ms of latency.

But they are limited to read only files.

Cloud flare workers allow running simple programs at the CDN node closest to the user.

SQLite is embeddable C code that is like a normal SQL server just without the network parts - just the sync functions embedded into your process.

This wraps SQLite with the networking and CDN abilities of cloud flare, allowing you to http-get a subset of data dynamically using SQL (that would not be possible with the simple “download 100% of file X”).




Now THAT makes sense! (And, i can now see the benefits of this approach.) Thanks for the explanation!




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