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Re:WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes? by ignoramous on Friday January 21, 2022 @07:48AM (#30022703)
> What’s needed is a edge first database, we need at least read replicas to be at the edge with your app... I'm interested to see if CloudFlare do anything in this area as it’s the part of their stack that’s missing.

Cloudflare already has a free caching layer, a freemium eventually-consistent KV store that optimises for frequently-read items, and a strongly-consistent datastore. Besides, they partner with other database vendors too: https://blog.cloudflare.com/partnership-announcement-db/

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Re:WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes? by samwillis on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:21AM (#30023105)
> strongly-consistent datastore

I think you are referring to the upcoming R2 object store? I’m not aware of what I would think of as a “strongly-consistent datastore” which would be closer to a traditional database with querying. It’s that that I think is missing.

Quite right they have partnered with other db providers, however I think there is a need for something native to their platform that ensures good proximity to Workers to ensure low latency.

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Re:WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes? by mwarkentin on Friday January 21, 2022 @08:33AM (#30023217)
I think they’re referring to Cloudflare Durablr Objects: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/using-dur...
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