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The Guide to Cloudflare's Durable Objects

by mxschumacher on 5/31/25, 12:00 PM with 3 comments

• by nivertech on 6/7/25, 5:46 AM

  Nothin' New Under the Moon:

      AWS Lambda        ≈ CGI-BIN [1] ≈ FastCGI [2]
  
      Cloudflare Worker ≈ EJB Session Bean [3]
      Durable Object    ≈ EJB Entity  Bean [4]
  
      Durable Objects   ≈ Distributed Virtual Actors (MS Orleans) [5,6]
  
      Serverless        ≈ Middleware-as-a-Service
  

  ;)

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  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastCGI

  3. https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/gipjg.html

  4. https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16439_01/doc.1013/e13981/undejbs...

  5. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

  6. Cloudflare Durable Objects are Virtual Objects

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44005900

• by blackhaj7 on 6/1/25, 4:19 PM

  I recommend the authors book too if you are staring out with Cloudflare