Serverless AI Dreams: Building a Birthday Photo Generator on Cloudflare Workers – And the Hidden Gotchas
Upload a selfie, get AI birthday scenes in 60 seconds – all on Cloudflare's serverless stack. But after 20 years watching hype cycles, I'm asking: who's really cashing in?
⚡ Key Takeaways
- Cloudflare Queues dodge Worker time limits, enabling 15-min AI jobs like Gemini + FLUX without servers. 𝕏
- Idempotent webhooks and CAS DB updates make distributed flows bulletproof – underrated serverless trick. 𝕏
- Prompt engineering trumps raw compute; 800-word Gemini system prompt is the secret sauce for consistent faces. 𝕏
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