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Introducing Workers KV

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Re: Introducing Workers KV

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post #88

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> Hi! Fanout founder here. I’m glad you like our way of doing things. If you need better pricing for high volume we are always willing to discuss. Hi! Wasn't expecting you to show up like this. Re. pricing for high volume, I'm sure enterprises and publishers could afford it, I'm trying to see if it's possible to offer free or very cheap service to individuals with large audiences. So not so much that I want a high vo…

Oh interesting, I didn't realize CF Workers metered by actual CPU usage and not just clock time. That would certainly make a difference in the expected cost. Even still, handling millions of simultaneous connections, with each connection in its own worker in a multi-tenant execution environment in order to save money sounds crazy. :) The operating cost (and thus the price) of a purpose-built system like ours should b…

It's worth realizing the multi-tenant nature of Workers happens within a single process, meaning from a cost perspective it's essentially indistinguishable from running your own hardware. It's actually one _less_ VM than if you were managing your own EC2 instances.

Re: Introducing Workers KV

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post #82

Holy return of tuple spaces! Are there any features for controlling consistency, or is it just YOLO last write wins?

Can you implement IPC with this system? It seems wrong to relate this to tuple spaces otherwise.

A poor man's IPC, like HTTP and HTML is a poor man's application platform ...

Re: Introducing Workers KV

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This is really cool. Webapps are basically programs that are executed across the network; having fine-grained control over what happens at each layer (client, client service worker, edge nodes, proxy server, origin server) means more choices and complexity, but also so much more power.

The question I would ask is: once you have the ability to run code and store data on the network itself (which Cloudflare effectively is), why do you need an origin at all?

Accidentally serverless.
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