Comparing Serverless Platforms: Cloud Run, Azure Functions, Lambda, and Cloudflare Workers

Calendar February 22, 2026
Serverless
Intermediate
Serverless-Platform-Selection, Cost-Estimation, Architecture-Decisions
Cloud-Run, Azure-Functions, Aws-Lambda, Cloudflare-Workers, Serverless-Comparison, Cold-Start, Pricing
Gcloud, Az, Aws-Lambda, Wrangler, Cloud-Run, Azure-Functions

Comparing Serverless Platforms#

Choosing a serverless platform is not about which one is “best.” Each platform makes different tradeoffs around cold start latency, execution limits, pricing granularity, and ecosystem integration. The right choice depends on what you are building, what cloud you already use, and which constraints matter most.

This framework compares the four major serverless compute platforms as of early 2026: AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Run, Azure Functions, and Cloudflare Workers.

Testing Infrastructure Code: The Validation Pyramid from Lint to Integration

Calendar February 22, 2026
Infrastructure
Intermediate
Terraform-Testing-Strategy, Static-Analysis, Plan-Testing, Integration-Testing, Cost-Estimation
Terraform, Testing, Tflint, Checkov, Conftest, Terratest, Infracost, Opa, Validation, Static-Analysis, Integration-Testing, Policy-as-Code
Terraform, Tflint, Checkov, Conftest, Opa, Terratest, Infracost

Testing Infrastructure Code#

Infrastructure code has a unique testing challenge: the thing you are testing is expensive to instantiate. You cannot spin up a VPC, an RDS instance, and an EKS cluster for every pull request and tear it down 5 minutes later without significant cost and time. But you also cannot ship untested infrastructure changes to production without risk.

The solution is the same as in software engineering: a testing pyramid. Fast, cheap tests at the bottom catch most errors. Slower, expensive tests at the top catch the rest. The key is knowing what to test at which level.