Globally Fast Applications with Cloudflare Hyperdrive and PlanetScale

Learn how to use Cloudflare Hyperdrive with PlanetScale to transform a regional database into a globally distributed one. In this step-by-step Next.js tutorial, we demonstrate a live app reducing database latency from over 1 second to 50ms with caching (and ~200ms without) using Hyperdrive’s intelligent connection pooling and edge caching across Cloudflare’s global network. Try it yourself! https://thecoffeecluster.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/jillesme/thecoffeecluster Create an account on Cloudflare today for free: https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up Tools mentioned: https://developers.cloudflare.com https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/ https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/hyperdrive/ https://planetscale.com/postgres Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to Cloudflare Workers and PlanetScale 00:30 Hyperdrive Demo: Before and After 01:42 Creating a $5 PlanetScale Database 02:46 Configuring the Role for Drizzle Migrations 03:09 Direct Connection vs. PG Bouncer 03:30 Setting up the Database URL 03:57 Running Migrations and Seeding Data 04:41 Latency Without Hyperdrive 04:58 Deploying to Cloudflare 05:57 PlanetScale Query Latency vs. Connection Latency 06:33 Enabling Hyperdrive 07:11 Adding Hyperdrive Binding to Wrangler.json 07:37 Generating Types with pnpm cf typegen 07:47 Updating Connection String to Use Hyperdrive 08:29 Setting Local Environment Variable for Hyperdrive 09:10 Handling Build Errors in Next.js 10:50 Deploying with Hyperdrive 11:11 Enabling Caching in Hyperdrive 11:57 Caching Results and Final Latency 12:50 Summary of the Build #cloudflare #cloudflareworkers #developer #planetscale #hyperdrive