Under the Hood

A transparent look at how this site is built, where it runs, and what it actually costs. No simulated dashboards, no vanity metrics — just the real architecture.

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Your Connection Right Now

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This data is real. The page you're reading was served by a Cloudflare Worker running at the edge location nearest to you.

-- Edge Datacenter
-- Country
-- Round-trip to Edge
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Architecture

This site runs on Cloudflare Workers — V8 isolates at the edge, not containers in a datacenter. Here is the stack:

Astro SSR Static-first framework with server-side rendering for dynamic routes
Cloudflare Workers Edge compute — your request never touches an origin server
D1 (SQLite) Edge database for contact form submissions and site data
Workers AI On-device inference for the AI chat feature — no external API calls
R2 Object storage for images and assets — zero egress fees
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Performance

These are real characteristics of the Cloudflare Workers platform, not measured metrics from a simulated dashboard.

0 ms Cold Start V8 isolates, not containers. No spin-up time.
330+ Edge Locations Code runs in every Cloudflare datacenter worldwide.
TLS Automatic HTTPS Certificate provisioning and renewal handled by the platform.
DDoS Protection Included L3/L4/L7 mitigation at the edge. No extra config needed.
<50 ms Typical TTFB Time to first byte for edge-rendered pages.
128 MB Worker Memory Per-isolate limit. Plenty for SSR and AI inference.
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What This Costs

Honest numbers. This site runs almost entirely on Cloudflare's free tier. Here is the breakdown:

Service Free Tier This Site
Workers 100k req/day Free
D1 5M reads, 100k writes/day Free
R2 10 GB storage, 10M reads/mo Free
Workers AI 10k neurons/day ~$0-2/mo
Custom Domain -- ~$10/yr
Total ~$1-3/mo

Global-scale infrastructure — 330+ locations, automatic TLS, DDoS protection — for less than a cup of coffee per month. The Workers free tier covers most personal sites entirely.

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Bigger Picture: Stackbilt Infrastructure

This portfolio site is one node in a larger system. Kurt's AI infrastructure runs on the same Cloudflare platform:

AEGIS Persistent AI agent — memory, goals, agenda management. Runs as a Cloudflare Worker with D1 for state.
Memory Worker Semantic memory layer with vector search via Vectorize. Service-bound to AEGIS.
BizOps Copilot Business operations AI — portfolio management, client tracking, revenue analysis.
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