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Simon Willison

Wrote up some notes on Cloudflare's fascinating new SQLite-backed "Durable Objects" system, which encourages an architectural style where your application creates thousands of tiny read-write SQLite databases scattered across Cloudflare's network simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/13/

13 October at 22:28 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
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Simon Willison

Just learned about this neat site which runs experiments to determine where in Cloudflare's network Durable Objects are being created and stored where.durableobjects.live/

Where Durable Objects Live Created by the wonderful Jed Schmidt, and now maintained with ❤️ by Alastair. Source code available on Github. Cloudflare Durable Objects are a novel approach to stateful compute based on Cloudflare Workers. They aim to locate both compute and state closest to end users. This page tracks where new Durable Objects are created; for example, when you loaded this page from Half Moon Bay, a worker in San Jose, California, United States (SJC) created a durable object in Los Angeles, California, United States (LAX). Currently, Durable Objects are available in 11.35% of Cloudflare PoPs. To keep data fresh, this application is constantly creating/destroying new Durable Objects around the world. In the last hour, 394,046 Durable Objects have been created(and subsequently destroyed), FOR SCIENCE! And a map of the world showing lots of dots
14 October at 0:50 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
Jed Schmidt

@simon hawman, thanks! alastair has done wonders with my barebones v1 of the site. i built it to surface a DO bug: x.com/jedschmidt/status/140316

14 October at 1:04 | Open on mastodon.social
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