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# Cloudflare Developer Platform

The [Cloudflare Developer Platform ↗](https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/) offers various services to empower developers to build full-stack applications, including: [compute ↗](https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/#compute), [storage ↗](https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/#storage), [web development, image optimization, video streaming ↗](https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/#webdev) and [AI ↗](https://ai.cloudflare.com/).

It is important to note that the developer platform product offering is growing with new releases and features updates. To review a list of product documentation related to Cloudflare Developer Platform:

1. Go to [Cloudflare Docs ↗](https://developers.cloudflare.com).
2. Select **Product directory** in the top menu.
3. Select the **Developer platform** filter to view [product documentation for Cloudflare Developer Platform products](https://developers.cloudflare.com/directory/?product-group=Developer+platform).

## Web development

[Cloudflare Pages](https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/) allows you to build full-stack applications at scale.

With Pages, you can deploy front-end applications using [C3, Git integration or Direct Upload](https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/get-started/). Pages supports a large set of frameworks including [Astro](https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/deploy-an-astro-site/), [Gatsby](https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/deploy-a-gatsby-site/), [Hugo](https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/deploy-a-hugo-site/), [Next.js](https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/nextjs/), [Nuxt](https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/deploy-a-nuxt-site/), [React](https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/deploy-a-react-site/), [Remix](https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/deploy-a-remix-site/), and [more](https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/).

## Compute

**Cloudflare Workers**

As you have learned in previous sections, [Cloudflare Workers](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/) allow you to build and deploy serverless applications instantly across the globe. To explore what you can build with Workers, refer to [Examples](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/examples/) and [Tutorials](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/tutorials/).

**Email Routing**

[Cloudflare Email Routing](https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/) allows you to create custom email addresses for your domain and route incoming emails to your preferred mailbox. If you already have a website, refer to [Enable Email Routing](https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/get-started/enable-email-routing/) to set up a custom email address for your site.

## Storage

Cloudflare storage offerings differ per use case.

| Use-case                                  | Product                                                                           | Ideal for                                                                                                                                                     |
| ----------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Key-value storage                         | [Workers KV](https://developers.cloudflare.com/kv/)                               | Configuration data, service routing metadata, personalization (A/B testing)                                                                                   |
| Object storage / blob storage             | [R2](https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/)                                       | User-facing web assets, images, machine learning and training datasets, analytics datasets, log and event data.                                               |
| Accelerate a Postgres or MySQL database   | [Hyperdrive](https://developers.cloudflare.com/hyperdrive/)                       | Connecting to an existing database in a cloud or on-premise using your existing database drivers & ORMs.                                                      |
| Global coordination & stateful serverless | [Durable Objects](https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/)             | Building collaborative applications; global coordination across clients; real-time WebSocket applications; strongly consistent, transactional storage.        |
| Lightweight SQL database                  | [D1](https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/)                                       | Relational data, including user profiles, product listings and orders, and/or customer data.                                                                  |
| Task processing, batching and messaging   | [Queues](https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/)                               | Background job processing (emails, notifications, APIs), message queuing, and deferred tasks.                                                                 |
| Vector search & embeddings queries        | [Vectorize](https://developers.cloudflare.com/vectorize/)                         | Storing [embeddings](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/models/?tasks=Text+Embeddings) from AI models for semantic search and classification tasks. |
| Streaming ingestion                       | [Pipelines](https://developers.cloudflare.com/pipelines/)                         | Streaming data ingestion and processing, including clickstream analytics, telemetry/log data, and structured data for querying                                |
| Time-series metrics                       | [Analytics Engine](https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/analytics-engine/) | Write and query high-cardinality time-series data, usage metrics, and service-level telemetry using Workers and/or SQL.                                       |

For a detailed guide to choosing the correct storage option, refer to [Choose a data or storage product](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/storage-options/).

## Image optimization and video streaming

[Cloudflare Stream](https://developers.cloudflare.com/stream/) and [Cloudflare Images](https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/) deliver videos and pictures to your end-users without configuring or maintaining infrastructure.

## AI

[Workers AI](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/) allow you to build and deploy AI applications that run machine learning models powered by serverless GPUs.

## Summary

You have learned:

* More about what the Cloudflare Developer Platform offers.
* The difference between compute, storage, application development, and AI products.

## Feedback

To improve this learning path, [file an issue on GitHub ↗](https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-docs/issues/new/choose).

## Community

Connect with the [Cloudflare Developer Platform community on Discord ↗](https://discord.cloudflare.com) to ask questions, share what you are building, and discuss the platform with other developers.

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