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Re:The Future of the Web Is on the Edge by ZephyrBlu on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:08PM (#33115312)
In what way are they more complex than doing it yourself and not complete solutions? Platform risk always exists, but in this case it seems pretty minimal. Cloudflare's solutions are not anything that can't be easily replaced, the value of them is that they are integrated with the rest of Cloudflare's platform and run on the edge.

What do you mean by loss of control? Cloudflare has local dev in their Wrangler tool. I'm not sure how testing/scripting is affected here since the main difference is the deployment target.

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Re:The Future of the Web Is on the Edge by nwienert on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:54PM (#33115730)
DurableObjects? It's a totally arbitrary API that's non portable and definitely not easily replaced. And once you opt out of db there's a lot less reason for the whole thing.
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Re:The Future of the Web Is on the Edge by lucasyvas on Friday October 07, 2022 @12:35AM (#33117483)
Counterpoint - every API is non-portable in the beginning. All it takes is a killer app - for example, S3.

I'm on the apprehensive side, but optimistic. Let the early adopters give it a shot so the rest of us can see how worth it it is.

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