Cloudflare—Cloudflare open-sourced its Workers runtime as 'workerd' under Apache 2.0 license
In September 2022, Cloudflare open-sourced its Workers runtime under the name 'workerd' with an Apache 2.0 license, making the core of its serverless computing platform freely available. This allowed developers to run the same runtime locally and in production, and contributed to the broader open-source ecosystem. The project is actively maintained on GitHub.
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| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
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| Open Source | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.590 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (medium ×1) × confidence (0.59)
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Cloudflare blog announcing open-sourcing of Workers runtime as 'workerd' under Apache 2.0
Cloudflare announced the open-sourcing of its Workers runtime under the name 'workerd', released under the Apache 2.0 license on GitHub. The blog post explained the decision was motivated by enabling local development parity and contributing to the open-source ecosystem.