Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare
Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure
Node.js creator Ryan Dahl has introduced a new open source project named celld, which offers developers an alternative to Cloudflare's Durable Objects and Workers. Celld is a self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects and Workers implementation that maintains compatibility with Cloudflare's APIs, but is significantly more cost-effective to run.
Dahl describes celld as a "love letter" to the Durable Objects architecture, with each celld object receiving its own copy of SQLite storage. Unlike traditional serverless platforms, Celld co-locates data with compute and uses single-threaded execution to prevent complex concurrency issues. Celld's creators claim that their solution is orders of magnitude cheaper at scale than Durable Objects, with an estimated cost of $49 a month compared to $415 a month on Cloudflare.
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