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Cloud · Infrastructure2024

Lifted a fintech's monolith to Cloudflare Workers + D1. Cold starts under 50ms.

(01) The challenge

Where it started.

A payments API running on a single VPS, no redundancy, and deploys that amounted to SSH and a prayer. One bad disk away from an outage their customers would never forgive — and they knew it.

(02) The approach

How we built it.

We ported the Node API to Hono on Cloudflare Workers without touching product logic, moved SQLite to D1 behind a dual-write window so both databases stayed live until the numbers matched, and put GitHub Actions in front so every deploy is a pull request, not a terminal session.

A payments startup was running on a single VPS with no redundancy. We migrated their Node.js API to Cloudflare Workers, moved their SQLite to D1, and set up CI/CD with zero-downtime deployments — all without touching their product logic.

Late-night build session lit by a laptop screen
(03) The outcome

What shipped.

  • <50ms cold starts globally
  • 99.99% uptime since migration
  • 80% infra cost reduction
  • Fully automated deploys

Year

2024

Category

Cloud · Infrastructure

Tech

  • Cloudflare Workers
  • D1
  • KV
  • Hono
  • GitHub Actions

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(04) By the numbers
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