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Workers Durable Objects Beta: A New Approach to Stateful Serverless

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Workers Durable Objects is a new serverless state solution for Cloudflare Workers that allows for consistent edge storage and real-time collaboration. State can be kept in-memory and altered in real-time by multiple clients simultaneously at the data center most central to everyone, and then saved for long-term storage when clients finish. This makes it possible to build things like gaming servers or document editing apps with real-time collaboration completely serverlessly.

“Durable Objects provide a truly serverless approach to storage and state: consistent, low-latency, distributed, yet effortless to maintain and scale. They also provide an easy way to coordinate between clients, whether it be users in a particular chat room, editors of a particular document, or IoT devices in a particular smart home. Durable Objects are the missing piece in the Workers stack that makes it possible for whole applications to run entirely on the edge, with no centralized "origin" server at all.”

What's new?

Introducing Cron Triggers for Cloudflare Workers (Cloudflare Blog)
It’s cron-believable! Cloudflare Workers can now be triggered to run on scheduled intervals called Cron Triggers, similar to a cron job.

Episode #66: The Story of the Serverless Framework with Austen Collins (PART 1) (Serverless Chats)
This episode of Serverless Chats features Austen Collins, the founder and CEO of Serverless, Inc. Austen discusses the past and future of the Serverless framework, how it’s developer community grew, and how he built a company around it.

Migrating cdnjs to Serverless with Workers KV (Cloudflare Blog)
Cdnjs, a CDN for JavaScript libraries built on top of Cloudflare, had a wake-up call when a technician accidentally took out cdnjs’ primary data center for 4 hours. They decided to migrate the project to Cloudflare Workers and leverage Workers KV to store the JavaScript libraries distributedly, mitigating the problems they ran into by depending on servers in a single location.

LAMBDA - A Serverless Musical (Hamilton "My Shot" Parody) (YouTube)
This hilariously clever musical parodies Hamilton’s “My Shot” while talking about the benefits and future of serverless.

Get your hands dirty

Cloudflare Workers Introduction (DEV)

Surviving a Heatwave using Google Cloud Functions (FREEK.DEV)

A Sudoku Solving Serverless Endpoint Using WebAssembly and OR-Tools (Medium)

From the community

Can a Worker Prevent Full Cache Purges? (Cloudflare Community)

How to Use event.waitUntil with Workers KV Put? (Cloudflare Community)

Upcoming developer events

ServerlessDays Warsaw
Event Type: Hackathon
Location: Remote
Date: September 3rd, 2020
This is a YouTube upload of the talks from ServerlessDays Warsaw.

Hacktoberfest
Event Type: Hackathon
Location: Remote
Date: October 1st-31st, 2020

A look inside Cloudflare

A Year Later: Reflections on the ANZ Security Landscape (Cloudflare blog)

Check out more about working at Cloudflare.