🏗️ DevOps & Infrastructure

Ditching Firebase for Cloudflare Workers: My Next.js Monorepo's Brutal Migration Lessons

GitHub Actions pipelines crumbling under monorepo weight? Firebase bills sneaking up? One dev's switch to Cloudflare Workers for Next.js apps delivers calm ops and global edge deploys. Here's the unvarnished truth.

Cloudflare Workers dashboard showing successful Next.js monorepo deployment logs

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • Cloudflare Workers slash costs and ops for Next.js monorepos vs Firebase's flaky scaling. 𝕏
  • Zero Trust Access gates staging effortlessly—free security win. 𝕏
  • Bump compat_date to 2025-04-01+ or env vars fail silently. 𝕏
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