Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 37 minutes ago

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Fed up with "links in the air," Craig built a custom solution to solve the developer educator’s biggest headache: knowing if anyone actually clicked the link. Join Craig as he breaks down how he architected LinkedOut, a high-performance analytics engine built entirely on the Cloudflare stack.

Repo: github.com/craigsdennis/linkedout-pipelines
Learn more: https://linkedout.dev/out/cloudflare-data-platform

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Tools mentioned:
developers.cloudflare.com
developers.cloudflare.com/workers
developers.cloudflare.com/pipelines

## Chapter Timestamps
0:00 - The Problem: Links in the Air
0:45 - Why Existing Shorteners Weren't Enough
1:28 - Introducing LinkedOut.dev
2:15 - The Tech Stack: Cloudflare, R2, and Apache Iceberg
3:40 - Architecting the Event Pipeline
5:10 - Live Demo: Tracking Clicks in Real-Time
6:35 - The Secret "Q" Shortcut for Presentations
7:50 - Handling Scale with Cloudflare Access
8:55 - Future Roadmap & Open Source
10:15 - Final Thoughts: Stop Guessing, Start Tracking

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