Lots of suggestions in this thread about better architecture but they all seem to forget that this is designed to be minimal in cost, complexity and maintenance while delivering 100% availability and great performance.
While Redis or a VM would be faster, that's way more overhead compared to a few cloud functions and table storage. This whole thing is event-driven and easy to build with just your browser, along with having cheap and granular billing. Cloudflare also already caches the responses so there's really no need for the origin to be perfect.
While Redis or a VM would be faster, that's way more overhead compared to a few cloud functions and table storage. This whole thing is event-driven and easy to build with just your browser, along with having cheap and granular billing. Cloudflare also already caches the responses so there's really no need for the origin to be perfect.