[vyrotek]

Is this similar to Azure Durable Functions?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durab...

From what I understand these features are a nice way to implement a serverless Actor Model. I was surprised to see no reference to it on the CloudFlare page.

[ShockaZ]

I was thinking this is a lot more like Microsoft Orleans:

https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/Documentation/index.html

[Serow225]

very close to Azure Functions Durable Entities: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durab...

[kentonv]

Possibly. We did not base the design (or name) of Durable Objects on any other product we were aware of (except arguably Sandstorm.io, which was my startup before joining Cloudflare). I haven't looked closely at Azure Durable Functions.

We actually did call this product "Actors" internally for a long time, but we found that people who had done previous Actor Model work (e.g. in Erlang) ended up more confused than enlightened by this name, so we ditched it.

[cgillum]

Interestingly, Azure's Durable Entities has a similar feature set and similar story of origin (internally called it actors, then switched to "entities" to avoid confusion): https://medium.com/@cgillum/azure-functions-durable-entities...