Cloudflare Durable Objects, every mention

npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare Mar 19, 2025 · 19 mentions

• ▶ 0:52 Sunil Pai I became friends with Rita when durable objects were announced, and I was four drinks down and tweeting at her, asking her to give me access, and then I started dissing the developer experience, so they offered me a job. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:52 Sunil Pai Okay, um, durable objects have been around in Cloudflare for about four years now, and I think they are the world's first implementation of the actor model in infrastructure, the thing that Erlang Elixir made, like, super popular. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 4:24 Sunil Pai I, as you know, have been a big fan of durable objects for years now. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 10:43 Sunil Pai That's the speciality of using a durable object for this, which is if you close, if you shut down your laptop or whatever, it's fine. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 15:14 Sunil Pai We're probably going to backport that API into, like, regular durable objects now, like, out of the library. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 16:44 Shawn Wang Kind of eliminates the need for that because durable objects make sure that your database is located, you know, to the closest point of presence, but it is still not local first. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 25:27 Shawn Wang Workflows on top of durable objects, and, you know, and you know that I have extensive history in workflows, and, like, I think there's, there's still some definitions or features of workflows that are still not existing in the Cloudflare…
• ▶ 34:17 Rita Kozlov It's not either or, it's a both, and the thing that we're really excited about, um, that maybe is the thing that I'll leave it to user for is, uh, durable object enabled containers.