I Thought I Needed a Database. Then I Needed Cloudflare's Durable Objects
There is a particular kind of engineering problem I really enjoy. The kind where you start with: “This should be easy.” And three hours later you’re reading documentation for a technology you didn’t
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Kartik N V J K
AI Developer | Making AI reliable, trustworthy & accessible to everyone | Active community contributor
Reframing it as what owns the conversation while it is alive is the shift that made Durable Objects click for me. The single-threaded execution per object is underrated for agent systems specifically, it removes a whole class of race conditions when a tool result and a user message land on the same session at once. How does hibernation behave if an agent has an LLM call in flight when the object goes idle?