A stateless pattern I use to batch telemetry at the edge while driving Cloudflare write costs to zero.
Cool pattern. Critics will say “falsehoods programmers believe about time” but it’s a cloud service, any time oddity that would break this would also break a lot more important stuff, so it’s fine.
Ugly code though.
// env
QUEUES = [EVEN_QUEUE, ODD_QUEUE]
// producers
env.QUEUES[hour % 2].send …
// consumer
env.QUEUES[1 + hour % 2]> env.QUEUES[1 + hour % 2]
// results in index 1 or 2 as js has precedence for */% over +-
So something like the following, for your desired visual succinctness? ...
env.QUEUES[hour % 2 ^ 1]
// results in desired js index 0 or 1
I wonder if any of you using AI code assistance regularly might tell an old hack like me if your code review tools would have caught such a bug?
Can you explain the pricing here?
Cloudflare R2 bills on writes ($4.50/M), reads ($0.36/M), and storage ($0.015/GB/mo). The free tier gives you 1M writes, 10M reads, and 10GB per month. If you batch uploads hourly, you only make ~720 writes a month. That completely eliminates write costs, leaving storage as the only expense.