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

Like 14 October at 0:50 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

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@simon hawman, thanks! alastair has done wonders with my barebones v1 of the site. i built it to surface a DO bug: https://x.com/jedschmidt/status/1403167515941896195

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