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title: Concepts
description: Build and deploy serverless applications with Workers.
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cf-twitter-card.png
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# Concepts

## Workers concepts

Learn the concepts behind what makes Cloudflare Workers reliable, scalable and fast.

## Objectives

By the end of this module, you will learn:

* What Cloudflare is.
* The difference between serverless computing and cloud computing paradigms.
* How Workers works.

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