# How Nodecraft Built a Scalable Game Server Platform with Cloudflare and Neon

DevFeed: [How Nodecraft Built a Scalable Game Server Platform with Cloudflare and Neon](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-nodecraft-built-a-scalable-game-server-platform-with-cloudflare-and-neon-5696.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/nodecraft-cloudflare-neon>)

Author: Carlota Soto

Published: 2025-03-20T18:33:57Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [Cloudflare Workers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloudflare-workers.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hosting.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>)

Tags: [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [case-studies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/case-studies.md>), [cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudflare.md>), [cloudflare-workers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudflare-workers.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [edge](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/edge.md>), [hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hosting.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>)

## AI overview

This case study describes how Nodecraft is transitioning from bare-metal infrastructure and bespoke game-specific systems to a serverless backend built on Cloudflare Workers and Neon. Cloudflare Workers run configuration logic at the edge, while Neon provides a central Postgres database for user data, game settings, and mod configurations. The architecture is intended to improve scalability and reduce latency across regions, with caching used to accelerate frequently reused configuration data.

## Source excerpt

"Moving from legacy infrastructure to a fully serverless stack has been a huge upgrade. We wanted our backend to be as hands-off as possible. Now we get all the power of Postgres, without having to think about it" (James Ross, Co-founder and CTO at Nodecraft) Nodecraft is a game...