2026

The AXIVO website runs on Cloudflare's edge for the price of a coffee and donut a month. The pieces are conventional — Next.js, Nextra, OpenNext, R2, Workers KV — but the way they cooperate is not. Most edge architectures use Cloudflare Workers as the application server. This setup uses them as a cache populator. Visitor traffic doesn't pay for compute, because almost nothing runs. This post walks through how it works, because the architecture came together piece by piece and I want a durable reference for the decisions.