Cloudflare Durable Objects
Cloudflare's serverless primitive for stateful, strongly consistent compute and storage alongside Workers.
Commenters like Durable Objects as a building block alongside Cloudflare Workers123, saying they make stateful coordination and colocating data with compute easy and elegant, even for small apps.456 The main caveat raised is one commenter's report that, without at least the $25 Pro plan, Cloudflare routes even India-to-India traffic via Marseille.7
Why people recommend it
Pairs with Workers · 3
Commenters describe Workers plus Durable Objects as a great combination to build on.
“durable objects and workers are game changer for me”
“workers and DO are just so fantastic to build on”
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“It worked really well!”
Easy coordination · 2
Stateful coordination and colocating data and compute near users are described as very easy and elegant.
“Durable Objects make stateful coordination and atomic colocation of data&compute near a user suuuuuper easy.”
“I used Cloudflare DO as it was elegant and convenient”
Good for small apps · 2
Commenters value them for small projects that don't need to be giant and scalable.
“Durable Objects are really neat, not everything has to be giant and scalable in every way.”
“It worked really well!”
Powerful model · 2
Commenters praise the power of the Durable Objects concept.
“how powerfull Durable Objects is”
“I love the idea of DOs and I'm happy to see an OSS implementation.”
Caveats and dissent
India routing · 1
One commenter says that, below the $25 Pro plan, Cloudflare routes even India-to-India traffic via Marseille.
“workers and DO are just so fantastic to build on”
Design rework · 1
Adopting Durable Objects for concurrent editing involved reworking billing logic around reservations with idempotency keys.
“I was investigating Durable Objects (DO)”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Matthew Prince on why Cloudflare offers a free version and always will (2016) 1 mention
- Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production? 1 mention
- Cloudflare's AI Psychosis 1 mention
- Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled 1 mention
- Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects 1 mention
Also written as Cloudflare Durable Objects. Data: cloudflare-durable-objects.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 9
“durable objects and workers are game changer for me”
“workers and DO are just so fantastic to build on”
“Durable Objects are really neat, not everything has to be giant and scalable in every way.”
“how powerfull Durable Objects is”
“I was investigating Durable Objects (DO)”
“It worked really well!”
“I used Cloudflare DO as it was elegant and convenient”
“Durable Objects make stateful coordination and atomic colocation of data&compute near a user suuuuuper easy.”
“I love the idea of DOs and I'm happy to see an OSS implementation.”