July 6, 2026
Cache me outside, how ’bout that
Workers Cache
Cloudflare says one switch cuts the work, and the comments instantly split into cheers and shade
TLDR: Cloudflare launched a one-toggle system that can serve repeat page requests without running the app each time, which could make sites faster and cheaper to operate. Commenters loved the practical win, but also roasted the announcement’s writing style and joked that the real wait is for other tools to catch up.
Cloudflare just dropped Workers Cache, a new feature that basically lets a website save a ready-made copy of a page so it can be shown again without re-running the app every single time. The company’s pitch is deliciously simple: flip on one setting, use normal web cache rules, and suddenly repeat visitors can get pages faster while the site owner pays less for the computer work behind the scenes. In plain English, it’s a “stop doing the same job over and over” button.
But in the comments, the real show began. One camp was instantly thrilled, with the loudest applause going to “Finally proper stale-while-revalidate support!” — nerd-speak for “the page can show an older saved version immediately while quietly updating in the background.” Translation: fewer waits, less pain. Another crowd immediately turned this into a compatibility soap opera, with people already side-eyeing whether outside toolmakers will keep up. One commenter basically sighed, now we wait for the OpenNext people to catch up.
And then came the pure comment-section chaos. The meanest-funniest drive-by called the feature great but the blog post a “slop grenade,” which is such a brutal review of the writing that it nearly stole the spotlight from the launch itself. Another reply pasted a giant chunk of the announcement like a parody of how long-winded it felt. Meanwhile, one outsider wandered in asking how you’d do this on Amazon’s setup, giving the whole thread a classic tech-forum twist: half celebration, half “cool, but what about the other guys?”
Key Points
- •Cloudflare launched Workers Cache, a tiered cache for Workers that is enabled through Wrangler and controlled with standard HTTP cache headers.
- •When a fresh cached response exists, Cloudflare serves it before the Worker runs, eliminating CPU billing for that request.
- •The system supports tiered caching, stale-while-revalidate, Vary-based content negotiation, multi-tenant-safe cache keys, and purge controls by tag or path prefix.
- •Cloudflare says the cache applies across deployment contexts including custom domains, workers.dev, service bindings, previews, and Workers for Platforms tenants.
- •The article explains that the feature addresses a shift from Workers acting in front of origin servers to Workers themselves becoming the application origin for modern frameworks.