Resources
Training docs from building saltwaterbrc.com on Cloudflare's developer platform. Every doc came from a real build, a real mistake, or a real lesson learned. Download, share, and use them in your next customer conversation.
Foundation — DNS & Hosting
DNS Setup on Cloudflare
How DNS works when Cloudflare Pages IS the host — no origin server, no A records to an external provider. Includes the old Squarespace architecture for reference and sales angles for both setups.
↓ Download PDFCloudflare Pages Deploy
How to deploy a site to Cloudflare Pages for $0/month. What Pages is, why we chose it over Squarespace, and the deploy process.
↓ Download PDFPages vs Workers Setup
I accidentally created a Worker instead of a Pages project. Here's the critical difference and how to avoid the same mistake.
↓ Download PDFDeveloper Workflow
GitHub to Pages Pipeline
Two-repo architecture, auto-deploy from GitHub, and the daily git workflow. How code goes from your machine to the edge.
↓ Download PDFTwo-Repo Sync Setup
Working across a personal desktop and a work laptop. Full instructions for first-time setup, daily workflow, and troubleshooting.
↓ Download PDFSecurity — Zero Trust & Network
Cloudflare Zero Trust
The complete Zero Trust training doc. Access (ZTNA), Gateway (SWG), Tunnel, WARP, Browser Isolation, CASB, and DLP — built hands-on with demo instructions, architecture diagrams, and sales talking points.
↓ Download PDFAPI Shield + Schema Validation
Securing APIs with schema validation, BOLA detection, and layered defense. Full walkthrough — writing an OpenAPI spec, uploading to API Shield, firing good and bad requests, and reading Security Events. Live demo included.
↓ Download PDFPage Shield — Client-Side Protection
Monitoring third-party scripts, connections, and cookies running in your visitors' browsers. Magecart detection, malicious script scoring, and PCI DSS 4.0 compliance for payment portals.
↓ Download PDFSpectrum — Layer 4 TCP/UDP Protection
Protecting non-HTTP traffic at the edge. Origin IP masking, L4 DDoS protection for SSH, RDP, databases, game servers, IoT, and email. Includes live demo walkthrough with DigitalOcean VPS setup and firewall lockdown.
↓ Download PDFDeveloper Platform — Workers, Durable Objects, R2, AI, Agents
Workers + Durable Objects + R2
Workers vs Pages Functions, the building/tenant analogy for Durable Objects, R2 storage, live endpoints, deployment steps, and customer pitch angles.
↓ Download PDFWorkers AI + Vectorize + AI Gateway
Building 'Ask This Blog' with RAG — edge inference, vector search, semantic similarity, AI observability. Workers AI vs OpenAI comparison, customer pitch angles, deployment steps.
↓ Download PDFCloudflare Sandbox SDK
Workers + Durable Objects + Containers in one product. Overview of the Sandbox SDK and how it maps to customer use cases.
↓ Download PDFOpenCode Overview
The open-source AI coding agent with 650K+ MAU. How it compares to Claude Code and how Cloudflare uses it internally.
↓ Download PDFWindsurf Cascade + MCP
Manage your entire Cloudflare account from a chat window. Windsurf Cascade connected to 5 Cloudflare MCP servers — docs, builds, API, bindings, and observability. No dashboard required.
↓ Download PDFCloudflare D1 Database
Serverless SQL at the edge. What D1 is, why it matters for global applications, real-world use cases across industries, and how we built a live guestbook in under 30 minutes.
↓ Download PDFMigrating to Astro
Why we migrated from hand-coded HTML to Astro — Cloudflare's own framework. Markdown blog posts, reusable layouts, built-in search. Used by Porsche, IKEA, and OpenAI.
↓ Download PDFCloudflare Stream
End-to-end video delivery. Upload a video, get a player. No transcoding pipeline, no CDN config, no video infrastructure. Replaces AWS MediaConvert + S3 + CloudFront.
↓ Download PDFCloudflare Agents SDK
From multi-turn chatbot (V2) to autonomous agent (V3). V3 now uses 12 Cloudflare products with 11 tools — planning multi-step tool chains, browsing websites with Browser Run, generating images with FLUX.2, searching the web, running durable research workflows, and supporting voice interaction. Security-audited with 31 checks passing.
→ Read Blog Post (V3) → V2 Blog Post