Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare with celld
Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure
We've got good news for developers who are enamored with Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects but don’t want to be tied into that company’s backend infrastructure. Last week, Node.js creator Ryan Dahl unveiled his latest project, celld, which he described on X as “a self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects and Workers implementation.”
Dahl’s celld model is compatible with Cloudflare’s Workers and Durable Objects’ JavaScript APIs, but he claims that it is much less expensive to run.
The project is no mere budget-minded open source rip. On celld’s web page, Dahl and his team characterize their replication of the Durable Objects architecture as a “love letter.”
Cloudflare’s Durable Objects is a single-threaded object with a unique global ID and its own storage, where user data is stored in its own copy of SQLite. It runs on the Cloudflare serverless Workers runtime, which...
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