2 years ago

Category: Database, Data

Content delivery network (CDN) https://www.cloudflare.com/ has given its users access to compute since it first https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-workers/ its https://workers.cloudflare.com/ feature in 2017. While compute at the edge can be a powerful feature, without access to stateful data, it remains limited.

Cloudflare first started out on its journey to provide its users with persistent data by https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-kv-is-ga/, a key value store it added in 2019.

With Durable Objects, Cloudflare handles many of the processes that would otherwise require an operations team or site reliability engineers (SREs).

While Durable Objects greatly expands developer capabilities within Cloudflare, the company also introduced two other features that greatly expand its ability to handle data.