Re:OpenWorkers: Self-Hosted Cloudflare Workers in Rust
by geysersam on Thursday January 01, 2026 @03:35PM
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If you have a central database, what benefits are you getting from edge compute? This is a serious question. As far as I understand edge computing is good for reducing latency. If you have to communicate with a non-edge database anyway, is there any advantage from being on the edge?
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Re:OpenWorkers: Self-Hosted Cloudflare Workers in Rust
by martinald on Thursday January 01, 2026 @03:40PM
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Well you can cache stuff and also use read replicas. But yes, you are correct. For 'write' it doesn't help as much to say the least. But for some (most?) sites they are 99.9% read...
Re:OpenWorkers: Self-Hosted Cloudflare Workers in Rust
by csomar on Friday January 02, 2026 @12:48AM
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Databases in Cloudflare are not edge. That is, they are tied to a central location. Where workers help is async stateless tasks. There are a lot of these (authentication, email, notifications, etc.)
Re:OpenWorkers: Self-Hosted Cloudflare Workers in Rust
by h33t-l4x0r on Friday January 02, 2026 @04:30AM
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It has edge replicas though. You're talking about d1, right?