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Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

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yomismoaqui · 1785939907 · focus · HN ↗
Everytime I read about new things from Cloudflare they look really cool but I cannot shake the feeling of not wanting to use them for fear of lock-in, am I too paranoid?
1. kentonv · 1785941369 · focus · HN ↗
  This is 100% open source and self-hostable.
  <a href="https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os
  It runs on top of our open source runtime.
  <a href="https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd
  1. yewenjie · 1785943614 · focus · HN ↗
    Does workerd have full feature-parity with Workers, including stuff like Durable Objects?
    kentonv · 1785944239 · focus · HN ↗
    It's the same code. The only thing it doesn't include is the global scheduling and orchestration, but you don't actually want that locally. (And honestly... that stuff is a bit of a beast.)
    Durable Objects are fully supported by workerd (and Cloudflare OS uses them extensively).
    There is, however, one catch currently: Durable Objects don't scale out well without the global scheduling. For running Cloudflare OS for one user, this is actually no big deal, but a company-wide instance might not work well.
    But I'm actually fixing that:
    <a href="https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/pull/6780" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/pull/6780
    Unfortunately didn't get enough time to land it before this release, but it'll come soon.
    With that I would expect a self-hosted Cloudflare OS on your own cluster to work quite well.
    TheTaytay · 1786024580 · focus · HN ↗
    Thank you for coming in and replying to all of these comments with actionable, honest info!

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