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Deno joins Cloudflare to simplify self-hosting Workers and Durable Objects

blog.cloudflare.com by Kenton Varda, Ryan Dahl 8 min read Editor score 6/10

The Deno team is joining Cloudflare, which says it will merge workerd and celld to make self-hosting Workers and Durable Objects simpler. The runtime consolidation is relevant to engineers evaluating portable server-side JavaScript platforms.

What
- The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to simplify self-hosting Workers and Durable Objects, merging workerd and celld.
How
- A Durable Object is a single-threaded, addressable server with a relational SQLite database; one per chat channel shards data and WebSocket connections.
Why it matters
- The model aims to bring placement, routing, and durable storage for distributed objects outside Cloudflare, reducing infrastructure developers must assemble.
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A chat application uses Durable Objects to handle WebSockets and access per-object SQLite storage. Sketched from the article's own text.

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