Deno's celld runs Cloudflare Workers on your own hardware

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

celld is an open-source daemon that runs Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on your own machines. Each object is its own SQLite database, addressed by name and replicated to an S3-compatible bucket you own; nodes coordinate through that bucket alone, with no control plane or consensus. Because every object is its own small database, applications shard by construction — the contention and blast-radius failures of one shared database are designed out, not managed. Idle cells hibernate to nearly nothing.

The bucket is the durable source of truth; nodes are replaceable.
  1. sakesun

    Wonder if this will become common practice from now on ?

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  2. jitl

    what is the difference between celld and Cloudflare Workers open source version workerd?

    https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd

  3. jumploops

    I recently spun up a simple app for our annual mango tasting event[0] using Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects.

    It worked really well! Excited to see more options outside of Cloudflare.

    [0]https://github.com/jumploops/mangotango

  4. myshapeprotocol

    Self-hosted and distributed durable objects are a huge step forward for maintaining reliable state across decentralized nodes. Great architecture!

  5. khalidx

    Finally!

    So happy to see support for running durable objects outside of one provider. Upvoted.

    The "durable object" concept has been repeatably demonstrated to be a valuable abstraction.

    "Each object is its own SQLite database, addressed by name and replicated to an S3-compatible bucket you own" -- this concept can take you a long way, both in its power and simplicity.

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