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The Guide to Cloudflare's Durable Objects
An In-Depth Exploration of the Technology That's Redefining Stateful Serverless Apps
That’s part of the beauty: you can write what’s effectively “normal” code, and the platform will handle the rest in terms of maintaining any Durable Objects you create, and the networking required to interact with them. For the same reasons it matters that a Cloudflare Worker is deployed globally - your Durable Objects can be spun up across the world instantly, and recover from failures in specific data centres. If you’ve ever worked with SQL before, you’ll likely have heard of the N+1 problem, but with SQLite-backed Durable Objects, you can genuinely write these types of queries and not incur any noticeable performance hit.
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